ALBANY
October 21, 2002
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ALBANY
October 28, 2002
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ALBANY
October 29, 2002
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ALBANY/SYRACUSE
4/8/56
(UFO Encyclopedia)
A passenger plane piloted by Captain Raymond E. Ryan and co-piloted by William Neff was flying from Albany to Syracuse when the two observed a brilliant white light like an approaching aircraft with its landing lights on. It was at about 2:20 AM and they were flying at 6,000 feet. They banked to avoid a collision and the object made a right angle turn to pass them. Ryan estimated the speed of the object at roughly 1,00 mph.

Ryan turned on his landing lights to avert any further risk of collision and reported the encounter to Griffis AFB. With their lights on, they could see the object as an orange glow ahead of their plane. Griffis personnel told them to turn off their lights, which they did, and the AFB confirmed that they could see an orange object. The base scrambled interceptors, but the object flew off over Lake Ontario towards Canada.

ALBANY
January 8, 2003
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ALTMAR
5/28/97
UFO Roundup vol 2 #24

AUBURN
4/23/00
UFO roundup vol 5 #24

BALLSTON SPA
3/21/00
UFO Roundup vol 5 #14

BROOKLYN
12/14/00
UFO Roundup vol 5 #51

BROOKLYN
June 25, 2001
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BROOKLYN
November 15, 2001
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BROOKLYN
January 5, 2002
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BROOKLYN
February 11, 2003
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BUFFALO
April 18, 2002
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BUSH PINE
9/17/55
(Magonia)
A couple were fishing when they heard a loud splash and a "gurgling sound," saw a pnik, iridescent, mushroom-shaped object rise about 70 cm above the water, and sink into the reservoir. Later, sthey saw the object again, about 5 meters long and surrounded with turbulence. It rveresed direction several times without turning around and finally flew away very fast.

CAMDEN
5/28/97
UFO Roundup vol 2 #23

CENTER MORICHES
September 28, 2002
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CHERRY CREEK
8/5/65
(Magonia)
Several children saw an object shaped like two saucers glued together come to ground level several times on the farm of William Butcher. It was chromelike, measured about 16 meters in diameter, took off with green and yellow flames, and illuminated the clouds when it flew into them. Captain james Dorsey and four technicians from Niagara Falss AFB investigated the case. they found no trace, concluding, however that the witnesses were not lying.

CHERRY CREEK
8/19/65
(Bluebook)
8:20 p.m. Witnesses: Mrs. William Butcher, son Harold, 17, and children. A large elliptical object, with a reddish vapor underneath, came close to the ground, then shot straight up into the clouds a few seconds later. Radio drowned out by static, a tractor engine stopped. When the object was on the ground, a steady beeping sound could be heard. Afterwards, a strange odor was noticed, and the next day, a purplish liquid, 2"x2" marks and patches of singed grass were found at the site. A bull bellowed and tried to break its bonds.

CHERRY CREEK
8/20/65
(Magonia)
Four students working on a farm noted radio intereference and a peculiar "beeping sound," then saw an object at low altitude on the farm of William Butcher. It was shaped like two saucer glued together, had a shiny chromelike surface, diameter of 15 meters, height of 6 meters, and left a trail and smell of burned gasoline. It rose straight up into the clouds, which were illuminated with green light. Five minutes later it came down again over a woods, rose, and finally flew off to the southwest. Effects were noted on animals: milk production decreased from 2 1/2 barrels to one; a dog barked, and other animals were terrified.

DUNKIRK
2/98
UFO Roundup vol 3 #7

DURHAM
April or May, 1932
(NICAP)
Aluminum-like disc with periphery of yellowish lights or "portholes" on underside.

DURHAMVILLE
4/5/66
(Magonia)
A woman was awakened by a flash, thought her heater had exploded, but found everything in order. The nect day she was told that a pulsating, luminous object had flown at very low altitude over her trailer, circled, and left. Three witnesses. Low buzzing sound.

ELMIRA
3/21/53
(Bluebook)
3:05 p.m. Witness: Ground Observer Corps observation post. Six discs in a group flew high and fast for a few seconds.

FARMINGDALE, LONG ISLAND
May 4, 2002
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FARMINGDALE, LONG ISLAND
October 6, 2002
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FRANKLIN SPRINGS
9/9/66
(Bluebook)
9 p.m. Witness: Jacobson. One solid object, larger than an army tank, with lights all around it, made a low humming sound and disappeared into woods at the end of the 30 minute sighting.

FREDONIA
9/27/65
(Magonia)
A woman saw a silvery object, 10 meters in diameter, rise from a wooded area and hover silently before leaving toward the west. Under the object was a boxlike device. Distance to witness: 400 meters. No light.

HAMBURG
6/13/66
(Magonia)
A woman was reading when an intense red light illuminated the ground near her house. She went outside and saw a lighted object, 20 meters away, 1 meter in diameter, which backed up and flew away "like a bullet". Three other persons saw it from the next house.

HAMBURG
November 19, 2002
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HAMPTON BAY(LONG ISLAND)
6/24/53
(Magonia)
A woman saw something like "a large aircraft", 30 meters in diameter, flying very slowly and low. It had a lighted red band around the middle and was coming straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She still thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near her, 25 meters above ground. Then it flew backward over the water and hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through which a control panel was visible. No occupant was seen. The cabin rose above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward the west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within 3 seconds at an 80° angle of climb after the 3 minute sighting.

HUDSON FALLS
January 16, 2003
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HUDSON RIVER
January 12, 2002
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IRONDEQUOIT
7/25/59
(Bluebook)
1 p.m. Witness: technical illustrator W.D. Neva. One thin, crescent moon-shaped object with a small white dome in the center, flew at tremendous speed for 5-10 seconds.

JEWEL
5/28/97
UFO roundup vol 2 #23

LAFAYETTE
October 1, 2001
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LOCKPORT
January 10, 2003
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LONG ISLAND
5/4/97
(RDUP5/18/97)
A man and his girlfriend observed three UFOs flying over Nassau County, Long Island, New York. The UFOs "were moving southeast slowly at 30,000 to 35,000 feet (9,090 to 10,606 meters) and changing shape as observed through binoculars."

"The UFOs appeared to be metallic with an orange glow," the witness reported. He then saw "two F-16 fighters intercept from the southwest. The UFOs disappeared when the F-16s got near."

"Fifteen minutes later," he added, "two black helicopters flew into the same general area and released a large quantity of balloons. This operation appeared very unusual and could cause a flight hazard to aircraft operation. Has anyone heard of a similar balloon release?"

LONG ISLAND
June 2, 2001
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LONG ISLAND
LEVITTOWN
10/2/99
UFO Roundup vol 4 #24

LONG ISLAND
PATCHOGUE
July 14, 2001
See Filer's Files #32

LONG ISLAND
WOODMERE NASSAU COUNTY
July 25, 2001
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LONG ISLAND CITY
December 30, 2001
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LYCOMING
4/5/66
(Magonia)(Bluebook)
A woman, 42, went to get a glass of water in her kitchen and saw a spinning object, 3 meters in diameter, 6 meters above the ground near her house. It departed very suddenly, leavin a trail.

LYNBROOK
September 2, 2001
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MAHOPAC
2/9/97
(RDUP2/16/97)
A woman reported a sighting there on Sunday, February 9, 1997, at 8 p.m. "My two children and I saw a strange light coming towards us, which turned into a flying vehicle of some kind. It passed over the tree nearest us." There was "no sign of turbulence as the object passed over. It vanished into the sky afterward. None of us were ever believers before. We weren't frightened, but now we're wondering what happened."

MASSENA
June 7, 2002
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MIDDLETOWN
January 15, 2002
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MIDDLETOWN
January 12, 2002
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MILLWOOD
Summer, 1984
The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings.

MITCHELL AFB
1/21/52
(NICAP)
A Navy TBM pilot chased a dome-shaped, white circular object which accelerated and pulled away.

MT. VERNON
8/4/52
(Bluebook)
11:37 a.m. Witnesses: one woman, two children. One object, shaped like a lifesaver or donut, emitted black smoke from its top and made a 15' arc in 1.5 minutes. Observed for 2 hours.

NASSAU COUNTY, LONG ISLAND
5/4/97
UFO Roundup vol 2 #20

NEWBURGH
3/16/97
UFO roundup vol 2 #15

NEW HYDE PARK
January 1, 2002
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NEW YORK CITY
11/5/57
(Magonia)
In Van Cortland Park, a man was talking with a bus driver when they saw, in the park, about 400 meters away, a metallic object shaped like a disk, spinning with a soft whirring. On top was a fixed dome with portholes. the object was hovering at tree-height. a yellow light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off "like a shooting star".

NEW YORK CITY
11/22/66
(McDonald)
A report in a 1967 issue of the NICAP _UFO Investigator_ reads as follows:

"A UFO over the United Nations in New York City was reportedly seen on November 22, 1966. Witnesses included at least eight employees of the American Newspaper Publishers Association,who watched from their offices on the 17th floor of 750 Third Avenue at 4:20 p.m. on a bright, sunny day. The UFO was a rectangular, cushion-shaped object ... (which) came southward over the East River, then hovered over he UN Building ... it fluttered and bobbed like a ship on agitated water."

NEW YORK CITY
4/12/96
(RDUP5/5/96)
At precisely 11:55 p.m., several airliners circling New York City reported visual and radar contact with "a large UFO." Six airliners in all reported contact. The sightings were confirmed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) control center in New York.

NEW YORK CITY
4/18/96
(RDUP4/28/96)
Promptly at 5:10 p.m. on Thursday, April 18, 1996, Mr. I.G. of Queens, NY was walking back to the office after having some postcards printed when he spotted an unusual object in the clear spring sky. I.G. saw the UFO "just over the Queens District Court House building. I have a habit of looking up into the sky whenever I'm outside. That day was a clear, cloudless blue sky. The view was totally unobstructed. I noticed a cylindrical object, wingless...it was very high up, maybe ten or more miles, and was still traveling upward. It looked like a rocket but there was no visible exhaust, and it just seemed to fly higher and higher until it disappeared. It literally left our atmosphere!"

I.G. said he "watched it for about five minutes and in all that time the cigar-shaped, pencil-like white object never moved more than five percent (degrees) from the ship's total parameter. It looked miles higher than any skywriting plane I've ever seen...It couldn't have been a satellite because they travel the entire vault of the sky. This thing just kept gaining tremendous altitude to the point where it was gone...The object just seemed to move so slow, as if it wasn't being affected by gravity or inertia. It kept its oblong shape throughout."

NEW YORK CITY
10/2/96
(RDUP10/16/96)
A 14-year-old boy and his friends spotted a UFO over Brooklyn. They described the object as "a blue-white bead high in the sky. It had a yellow-orange tinge. It was rising in the sky and moving in a large arc." The UFO crossed Linden Avenue and flew away in a southwesterly direction, moving towards Bensonhurst and Seagate.

NEW YORK CITY
10/3/96
(RDUP10/16/96)
On Thursday, October 3, at precisely 5 p.m., James M., a thirtyish stockbroker who works in Manhattan, boarded the ferryboat for his commute home to Staten Island. At 5:45 p.m.. James "noticed lights out the window on the New Jersey side (of the boat). Hoping to get a better look, I left my seat and made my way to the stern. There were forty to sixty people out on the rear deck, all trying to look up at these points of light."

James counted 11 UFOs heading west over Bayonne, New Jersey "as they flew very high in the sky at an incredible speed." Just then, two U.S. Air Force jet interceptors appeared and began chasing the objects. Six dark olive-drab helicopters appeared moments later, trailing the jets and the UFOs. The objects fled in a northeasterly direction, skirting Newark and heading for Kearny and Belleville, New Jersey.

James described the UFO's color as "yellow like an incandescent bulb with a slight silvery shine. Several of the foreign tourists took photographs of them."

NEW YORK CITY
8/9/97
(RDUP9/28/97)
A Swissair Boeing 747 jetliner took off from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bound for Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the first leg of its transatlantic flight to Zurich.

While flying at 23,000 feet in a northeasterly direction, about ten miles south of New York City's Staten Island, the Swissair 747 was suddenly bypassed by a UFO.

According to Agence France Presse, the "white object" passed within 150 feet (45 meters) of the Boeing 747, flying at high speed in the opposite direction, i.e. to the southwest.

"The pilot said it was 'elongated, white and without wings,' although the co-pilot described it as 'rather round.'"

Swissair spokesman Erwin Schaerer said, "Neither the pilot nor the co-pilot spoke of a missile."

On Friday, September 26, Pat Cariseo of the National Transportation Safety Board declared that the UFO "was probably a weather balloon."

Later the same day, "the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the eerie object was merely a weather balloon."

"FAA spokesman Jim Peters said a United Airlines pilot flew through the area about the same time and identified the National Weather Service balloon."

"Peters said radar tapes as well as NWS records backed up the United pilots."

NEW YORK CITY
9/16/97
(RDUP9/28/97)
A man and his wife were walking to their neighborhood market in the vicinity of West 23rd Street and 7th Avenue in lower Manhattan, New York City, when they saw an unusual display in the sky.

"It was a beautiful warm evening here in New York City," Ian reported. "As we approached the corner...I looked ahead and saw (Boeing) 747 slowly cross New York's West Side. The reason we stared is because it was flying 'very' low, appearing very large in the sky with all its landing lights on."

"Looking northwest, we stopped at the corner of West 23rd and Seventh Avenue and watched the plane slowly cross the city and bank slightly to the southeast. It was at this time that out of the corner of our eyes, directly to our right (northeast) we spied a large green object passing over the city."

"This object appeared to be oval-shaped. It was flying higher than the 747 and was moving at an incredible rate of speed. We could not determine the altitude but the object looked large--about the size of a quarter held at arm's length."

The couple described the object as "round...with a white center and a glowing green oval-shaped halo." It was "higher than the 747 but not 'that' much higher."

NEW YORK CITY
12/14/00
UFO roundup vol 5 #51

NEW YORK CITY
October 15, 2001
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NEW YORK CITY
CENTRAL SQUARE
September 8, 2002
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NEW YORK CITY
MANHATTAN
September 8, 2002
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NEW YORK CITY
MANHATTAN
September 29, 2001
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NEW YORK CITY
MANHATTAN
October 1, 2002
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NEW YORK CITY
QUEENS
September 8, 2002
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NEW YORK CITY
June 21, 2001
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NEW YORK CITY
October 29, 2002
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NEW YORK CITY
MANHATTAN
December 17, 2002
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NIAGARA FALLS
6/1/51
(Bluebook)
4:20 a.m. Witnesses: M/Sgt H.E. Sweeney, 2 enlisted men. One glowing yellow-orange, saucer-shaped object with arc-shaped wings, flew straight up. Seen for 30-40 seconds.

NIAGARA / DEPEW
1/58
(UFOs&How)
A woman driving in a snowstorm came upon a large lighted object with two beings visible beside it. Her car engine and headlights failed. The object then began to rotate and rise into the sky, after which the witness' car started normally.. The witness found a hole melted in the snow at thespot where the object had been.

NORTH TONAWANDA
January 16, 2002
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NORWICH
7/27/64
(Bluebook)
7:30 p.m. Witness: Duabert, engineering supervisor. One aluminum sphere with a luminous ring, remained stationary for 4-5 minutes.

NORWOOD
07/03/1884
(NICAP)
A saturn-shaped UFO (globe with central ring) flew slowly overhead. [Charles Fort]

ONEIDA
September 8, 2002
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ONEIDA LAKE
5/28/97
UFO Roundup vol 2 #23

ONEONTA
September 3, 2002
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OSWEGO
3/3/66
(Magonia)
Several civilians reported an object that flew slowly toward the south, hovered, came iwthin 15 meters of them, and finally flew off toward the southwest.

PINE BUSH
8/19/98
UFO Roundup vol 3 #34

PINE BUSH
February 2, 2002
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PLATTSBURG
October 14, 2002
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PLEASANTVILLE
November 11, 2O01
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PORTCHESTER
January 16, 2003
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POUGHKEEPSIE
October 13, 2001
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PLEASANTVILLE
12/12/99
UFO Roundup vol 4 #34

ROCHESTER
6/29/97
UFO Roundup vol 2 #27

ROCHESTER
3/15/00
UFO roundup vol 5 #12

ROCHESTER
August 29, 2002
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ROME
October 7, 2002
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ROME AFB
2/27/60
(Bluebook)
6:27 p.m. Witnesses: control tower officer Capt. J. Huey and four other tower operators. One light trailing a white fan shape, made a mild descent for 3-4 minutes.

SCOTCHTOWN
January, 2002
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SELDEN
June 27, 2002
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SHERBOURNE
7/27/64
(Magonia)
An engineer stopped his car when he saw an aluminum-looking object, stationary, about 15 meters above the ground. The edge of the craft seemed fluorescent, and three beams of very bright lightwere emitted before it flew off at high speed. Total duration: 6 minutes.

SMITHTOWN, LONG ISLAND
May 4, 2002
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SOUTHHAMPTON
10/23/66
(Bluebook)
6 p.m. Witness: Mr. Acquino. One object with arms in front of it which sparkled like an arc-light. Traveled south along some power lines, then turned southwest. Made a slight humming sound during the 4 minute sighting.

ST. JAMES
January 9, 2003
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ST. JOHNSVILLE
August 24, 2001
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STATEN ISLAND
June 11, 2001
Filer's Files #25, 2001

STATEN ISLAND
July 15, 2001
See Filer's Files #34

STATEN ISLAND
September 8, 2002
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STATEN ISLAND
September 28, 2002
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STATEN ISLAND
October 1, 2002
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SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB
9/6/66
(Bluebook)
6:50 p.m. Witnesses: Stahl and Ladesic. One white cylinder of light came from the east at high speed, stopped and hovered for 3 minutes, and then turned and slowly disappeared. Sighting lasted 8 minutes.

SYRACUSE
3/3/68
(Magonia)
While driving to work, a man observed a luminous, cigar-shaped object, about 25 meters long, showing numerous multi-colored lights. The car almost stopped as the object flew low overhead, and the witness was briefly paralyzed.

THOUSAND ISLAND BRIDGE
October 6, 2002
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UNADILLA
10/22/00
UFO Roundup vol 5 #43

UNIONDALE
7/12/97
(RDUP7/27/97)
at 11:45 p.m., a man "was in his backyard in Uniondale, Long Island, New York and very briefly witnessed a bright light roughly 3/4 the size of the moon moving sideways from southwest to northeast and then completely vanished. He could not distinguish any features of this object other than a slight oblong shape and extreme brightness."

UPSTATE
6/29/54
(McDonald)
Near Seven Islands, Quebec, just after sunset, A BOAC Stratocruiser, bound from New York to London with 51 passengers, was followed for 18 minutes (about 80 miles of airpath) by one large object and six smaller objects that flew curious "formations" about it. The pilot of the Stratocruiser was Capt. James Howard, a highly respected BOAC flight officer still flying with BOAC. At the time, he had 7500 flight hours. About 20 witnesses, including both passengersand crew, gave statements as to the unprecedented nature of these objects.

WATERTOWN
October 5, 2002
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WHITE PLAINS
August 21, 2002
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WHITESTONE
March 2, 2002
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WILLSBORO
9/1/66
(Bluebook)
2:45 p.m. Witness: T.H. Ridman. One oval object with lights that flashed red and white and occasionally blue, travelled west, then disappeared downward. It returned, several minutes later, at which time a loud noise was heard. The entire sighting lasted 30 minutes.

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