1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Here in Michigan, Washington, Ocote authorities this morning are taking a close look at last 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,000 night's flurry of reports of flying saucer activity northwest of Ann Arbor. 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Two weeks of reporters' sightings came to a climax when a farmer reported a saucer touch 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,000 down on his property. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:24,440 At about the same time, next to Village Police Officer Robert Honeywell said a saucer-like 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,000 vehicle hovered about 10 feet over his scout car. 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Forty-five-year-old Frank Manor and his 19-year-old son Ronald told authorities a craft came to 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 work on his farm about 18 miles northwest of Ann Arbor. 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:43,000 He said he and his son walked within 500 feet of the object before it whizzed away soundlessly. 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Manor, patrolman Honeywell, and at least five other witnesses said it looked about the size 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 of a large automobile. 12 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Washtenaw County Deputy Sheriff John Foster, who himself had reported seeing such an object 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,000 last week, gave this description of what witnesses saw last night. 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Object was observed to be of a brown mopping, appeared to be a cool type of sight surface. 15 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Object is observed to be a flat-up on the bottom end, corn shaped toward the top. 16 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Hover being low in height. 17 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Two small lights appeared to be at the outer edges of the object, flying in a blue-screen 18 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,000 light and intensifying to a brilliant red in color. 19 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:36,000 When the vehicle or object eliminated, the lighting was a yellow-white in color and ran 20 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:42,000 horizontally between the two outer lights, allowing some of the objects to be viewed. 21 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Outer body appeared to be rough in texture. 22 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Is this jibe with the other descriptions and other evidence? 23 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:56,000 There are evidence of both that it's ever been seen, if you understand that. 24 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:04,000 And this is, as far as the lighting setup is concerned, it's the same. 25 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 It's blue-screen lights and so on like that. 26 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 It's in the shape also. 27 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:17,000 As far as this closed outside surface, I don't know, myself. 28 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:25,000 There is one who previously reported seeing an object of this general nature. 29 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Can you pretty much believe in it, Debbie Foster? 30 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:35,000 I do, really, because you can discount it after you've actually seen it. 31 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:44,000 We followed this one object last Monday night for two or three hours. 32 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:51,000 And it joined up with three other in-suit and in-suit formations. 33 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Washington, NC, Deputy John Foster, whose partner photographs an unidentified fly-in 34 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 objects last week and still is awaiting return of the prints. 35 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Radar observers at Metropolitan and Willow Run Airports and Southridge Field say they did not pick up 36 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 any indications of unusual airborne activity last night. 37 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Was it a flying saucer? 38 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Petroman Robert Honeywell of Dexter, Michigan said it looked more like a flying waffle. 39 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Anyway, Honeywell and five other persons say they saw a strange sight last night. 40 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:29,000 They said a round-shaped object slightly larger than a standard-sized American automobile 41 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:37,000 made of waffled metal with blinking lights, moved soundlessly through the sky near the Ann Arbor, Michigan suburb 42 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 and landed in a marsh. 43 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Petroman Honeywell said the object was flashing a red, white and blue light. 44 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:51,000 He said he and his son-in-law turned the flashlight beam on the object and it flew soundlessly away. 45 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Charles Murphy, NBC News at the White House. 46 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,000 As NBC reported, more reports of unidentified flying objects had washed in our county, 47 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 only this time we have a reported landing. 48 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Several residents and police officers in the Ann Arbor area reported spotting mysterious aircraft. 49 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,000 The third report in a week. 50 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Petroman Robert Honeywell from Dexter told Sheriff's officers that one of the objects 51 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,000 hovered about 10 feet above his patrol car last night. 52 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:25,000 He said it resembled an airplane, had a waffle-like exterior and lights in the center and around the edges. 53 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:30,000 He told officers the lights diffused towards the center of the craft when it accelerated. 54 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Washington, O'Cottie Sheriff Douglas Harvey rushed seven patrol cars to the area 55 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:41,000 and reported later that several of his deputies reported sighting objects from two different locations. 56 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,000 So for Sheriff's base said it had no reports of UFOs. 57 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Here at WCAC Microphones are in Ann Arbor for this direct live description from Sheriff Douglas Harvey. 58 00:04:53,000 --> 00:05:00,000 We had several cars dispatched out there and they described it as the same thing as we did. 59 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,000 It had the same kind of objects a week ago. 60 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 The bright lights, the blueish-green lights and so on. 61 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Maneuverability from side to side, up and down. 62 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 It had a saucer-like shape to it. 63 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Mr. Mannard, when he had settled off the firm and observed these objects go down into the slump area. 64 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:29,000 At the same time we had six other cars out there and he was a Michigan professor 65 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 and they also observed the same thing and everybody described the same as the same. 66 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 No sounds were done at all. 67 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Sheriff Douglas Harvey on the WCAC Direct Live to Ann Arbor. 68 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Bring you the news with Frank Tomlinson reporting. 69 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Thank you Mike and good afternoon everyone in the headlines, those UFOs in Washington, O'Cottie. 70 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:57,000 The talk of Washington, O'Cottie this noon is, are there really unidentified flying objects? 71 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Or are people just seeing things? 72 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,000 If they are just seeing things then a lot of people are seeing those things. 73 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:09,000 At least 40 persons have reported seeing an unidentified flying object last night. 74 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Not only seeing it, but seeing it land in a field on the farm of Frank Mannard. 75 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Well, the witnesses were police officers. 76 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:23,000 All of the witnesses, when interviewed by law officials, corroborated the stories of the other witnesses. 77 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:30,000 WJR News contacted Washington, O'Cottie Sheriff Douglas Harvey who had this to say about the UFOs. 78 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:37,000 I have not myself seen it, but in fact it means now we've got too many people, too many trained people 79 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,000 that have spotted this thing and give us the same identical description. 80 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 We had a fellow in here who was from England. 81 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 He spotted his wife up here in the Pinkney area. 82 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Along with him was an engineer from the University of Michigan. 83 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 They both spotted it. 84 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Last night about 10 officers spotted the same identical thing. 85 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Various farmers and a professor from the University of Michigan spotted it. 86 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Everybody gave us the same identical description when interviewed separately. 87 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:09,000 And, I see, I'm getting to the point now, how can you tell all these people? 88 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 They've seen something. We've got no answers yet, law. 89 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Washington, O'Cottie Sheriff Douglas Harvey. 90 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Harvey said men will be at the Mannard farm today with Gagger counters. 91 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Mannard and his son said they went to within 500 yards of the object that they described as being in the shape of a football. 92 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Two other Washington O'Deputies saw UFOs last Monday night and said they took pictures. 93 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,000 But that the film was sent to New York to be developed and that it would take two weeks. 94 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Meanwhile, there's a report that the government has confiscated that film. 95 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 There is no confirmation of that report. 96 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:52,000 The Washington O'Cottie Sheriff's Department of Deputies reported that they saw unidentified flying objects last night between 9 and 11 o'clock. 97 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:59,000 These objects were flying in a swampy area and would land and take off again going up to a height of 200 feet. 98 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Persons in the Rush Lake area also reported seeing three of these unidentified objects. 99 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:10,000 They were hovering around the lake and appeared to be doing some kind of maneuvering. 100 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Used to check the area where 40 persons, they are flying saucer landed last night. 101 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Some 15 miles northwest of Ann Arbor, a dozen of the witnesses were policemen who said a mysterious craft about the size of a large automobile joined four others before streaking away at high speeds. 102 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:36,000 A statement today from the Commissioner of State Police, Frederick David, who said he was taking a new interest in UFO reports. 103 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:47,000 David, by the way, holds also the post of Civil Defense Director, who was reacting to reports from about 60 persons who claimed to have seen an unidentified flying object near Ann Arbor last night. 104 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,000 At least 40 people claimed to have seen one of the objects land. 105 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Among the witnesses were several police officers at WJR Newsman, William Harris. 106 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:07,000 On the scene today, heard police officer Robert Hunowell of Dexter say he was one of the residents of that area who saw similar objects zipping through the skies early last Monday and Wednesday. 107 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:15,000 As for State Police Commissioner David's today, he was contacted by Newsman Dave White and said during conversation, 108 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:21,000 We certainly are interested in these reports that are coming in and we intend to look further into it. 109 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:34,000 We have men of science now that are inquiring into it and expect we will talk with Washington County authorities and with some of the people that are supposed to have seen certain objects. 110 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,000 What is your personal attitude toward these objects? 111 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Well, actually I know nothing more about them than what I read or hear in the reports, but when you get as many people citing something, cited things last night in the Dexter area over the weekend, 112 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,000 why I think it's time to take another long hard look at it anyway. 113 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:05,000 I think many of these people certainly aren't the type that make a report just for the sake of publicity. 114 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,000 I don't think you really did see something. 115 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,000 State Police Commissioner Frederick David. 116 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:21,000 The thousands of people in Washington County and surrounding areas have become firm believers in flying saucers in the past few weeks. 117 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:30,000 For the weekend, more reports, 40 persons, 12 of them law officers reported seeing an unidentified flying object land in a swamp near Ann Arbor. 118 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Officers said four sister ships hovered in a quarter circle above the other object which landed, and said it then took off with a warbling sound like the echo of a ricocheting bullet. 119 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Mr. Policeman Robert Hunnowill said he and other residents saw similar objects zipping through the skies early last Monday and again on Wednesday. 120 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 He explained to WJR's William Harris. 121 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:08,000 The other one was down, just disappeared completely. In fact, that didn't even see a thing when they just took their lights and looked, that they disappeared completely. 122 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:15,000 And it went over my car and the other patrol cars. 123 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:25,000 I watched this, and I got a little bit beyond character on the road, and then I went back, seemed like a terrible, but actually if I could see the other one, say, and they were gone, and I was back, and I could see the other one. 124 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:31,000 That one was still there, and this was on to the system, and it was on their ground. 125 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Possibly, I wouldn't say that it was. 126 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:43,000 The 17-year-old Frank Manor, a farmer, and his 19-year-old son Ronald said they approached within 100 yards of the strange object sighted last night. 127 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:47,000 They said it lay in a swamp and had pole-setting lights on each end. 128 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Manor said it was fitted like coral rock and about the length of a car. 129 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,000 He said its shape was like that of a football. 130 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Manor said his son then said, look at that horrible thing in the craft vanished. 131 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Six police cars chased the formation of strange objects, but the objects vanished in the darkness. 132 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:16,000 In Washington, the Air Force said it had no report as yet on the latest sighting of the UFOs, but that its investigative office at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Baden is checking the incident. 133 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:24,000 While the Air Force is characteristically silent on UFO reports, State Police Colonel Frederick David says he plans to look into the matters. 134 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:30,000 We certainly are interested in these reports that are coming in and we intend to look further into it. 135 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:43,000 We have men of science now that are inquiring into it and they expect we will talk with Washington County authorities and with some of the people that are supposed to have seen certain objects. 136 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,000 What is your personal attitude toward these objects? 137 00:12:47,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Well actually I know nothing more about them than what I read or hear in the reports, but when you get as many people sighting something, as cited things last night in the Dexter area over the weekend, 138 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,000 why I think it's time to take another long hard look at it anyway. 139 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Yeah, I think many of these people certainly aren't the types that make a report just for the sake of publicity. 140 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,000 That way you truly did see something. 141 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:23,000 State Police Colonel Frederick David's question by WJR Newsman Dave White. 142 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:33,000 This has just come in from Ann Arbor. WJR's William Harris reporting from there has just interviewed the Washington County Sheriff Douglas Harvey. 143 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:40,000 I'm sure as a large as that you've just completed an investigation on the scene of the fighting last night. What did you discover? 144 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:49,000 We found nothing out there. There was no indication or evidence of where it's come down or where the Mr. Manor said it had come down or my officer stated it, the area where it's come down. 145 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Also the Gaggle counter picked up nothing. 146 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:58,000 There was all flat grass, flat brush or anything that would indicate something in line with that? 147 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 None whatsoever. 148 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,000 How many theories as to what this might be? 149 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:12,000 I wish I did. I wish I had some answers. I was a little doubtful at first sighting this was on the 17th, we sighted the first one, and then did. 150 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Then again on the 18th and then last night. But now we've got too many people, too many trained officers have also seen this. 151 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,000 So my doubt is gone. I know they've seen something. What it is I don't know. 152 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 Do you intend to continue your investigation? 153 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Definitely. We find out exactly what it is. 154 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:36,000 47 year old Frank Manor, a farmer and his 19 year old son Ronald said they approached within 100 yards of the strained object sighted last night. 155 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,000 They said it lay in a swamp and had pole setting lights on each end. 156 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Manor said it was pitted like coral rock and about the length of a car. 157 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 He said its shape was like that of a football. 158 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Manor said his son then said look at that horrible thing and the craft vanished. 159 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Six police cars chased the formation of strange objects but the objects vanished in the darkness. 160 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:09,000 In Washington the Air Force said it had no report as yet on the latest sighting of the UFOs, but that its investigative office at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton is checking the incident. 161 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Well the Air Force is characteristically silent on UFO reports. 162 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,000 State Police Colonel Frederick David says he plans to look into the matters. 163 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:23,000 We certainly are interested in these reports that are coming in and we intend to look further into it. 164 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:36,000 We have a men's sign now that are inquiring into it and expect they will talk with Washington County authorities and with some of the people that are supposed to have seen certain objects. 165 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,000 What is your personal attitude toward these objects? 166 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Well actually I know nothing more about them than what I read or hear in the reports, but when you get as many people sighting something, as sighted things last night in the next area over the weekend, 167 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:00,000 I think it's time to take another long hard look at it anyway. 168 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:07,000 I think many of these people certainly aren't the type that make a report just for the sake of publicity. 169 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Probably truly did see something. 170 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:16,000 State Police Colonel Frederick David's question by WJR Newsman Dave White. 171 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:26,000 The report has just come in from Ann Arbor. WJR's William Harris reporting from there has just interviewed the Washington County Sheriff Douglas Harvey. 172 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Sheriff, I understand that you just completed that investigation on the scene of the sighting last night. What did you discover? 173 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:40,000 We found nothing out there. There was no indication or evidence of where it had come down or where the Mr. Manners said it had come down. 174 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:46,000 The other day the Sheriff stated in the area where it had come down, also the Geiger counter picked up nothing. 175 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:51,000 There was no flat grass, flat brush or anything, windpicks, nothing in line with that? 176 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 None of what's there ever. 177 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Do you have any theories as to what this might be? 178 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:05,000 I wish I did. I wish I had some answers. I was a little doubtful at first sighting. This was on the 17th we sighted the first one I met then. 179 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:10,000 It was on the 18th and then last night. But now we've got too many people, too many trained officers have also seen this. 180 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,000 So my doubt is gone. I know they've seen something. What is it that I don't know? 181 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Do you intend to continue your investigation? 182 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Very definitely. We find out exactly what it is. 183 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:29,000 47-year-old Frank Manner of Farmer and his 19-year-old son Ronald said they approached within 100 yards of the strained object sighted last night. 184 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,000 They said it lay in a swamp and had whole setting lights on each end. 185 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Manner said it was fitted like coral rock and about the length of a car. 186 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 He said its shape was like that of a football. 187 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Manner said his son then said, look at that horrible thing and the craft vanished. 188 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Six police cars chased the formation of strange objects, but the objects vanished in the darkness. 189 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Washington, the Air Force, said it had no report as yet on the latest sighting of the UFOs, 190 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,000 but that its investigative office at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and Dayton is checking the incident. 191 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:07,000 While the Air Force is characteristically silent on UFO reports, 192 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:11,000 State Police Colonel Frederick David says he plans to look into the matters. 193 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:17,000 We certainly are interested in these reports that are coming in and we intend to look further into it. 194 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:24,000 We have men of sight now that are inquiring into it and expect to talk with Washington County authorities 195 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:30,000 and with some of the people that are also have seen certain objects. 196 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:35,000 What is your personal attitude toward these objects? 197 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Well actually I know nothing more about them than what I read or hear in the reports, 198 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:50,000 but when you get as many people sighting something, sighted things last night in the next area over the weekend, 199 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,000 why I think its time to take another long hard look at it anyway. 200 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:01,000 I think many of these people certainly aren't the type that make a report just for the sake of publicity. 201 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Probably truly did see something. 202 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:10,000 State Police Colonel Frederick David's question by WJR Newsman Dave White. 203 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:20,000 This has just come in from Ann Arbor. WJR's William Harris reporting from there has just interviewed the Washington County Sheriff, Douglas Harvey. 204 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Yes, I just had a pictures completed that investigation on the scene of the sighting last night. 205 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 How did you discover it? 206 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:33,000 We found nothing out there. There was no indication that the evidence of board had come down where the Mr. Manners said it had come down. 207 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:39,000 My officer stated that the area when it had come down. Also the Geiger counter picked up nothing. 208 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:45,000 There was no flat grass, flat brush or anything that would indicate something on the land. 209 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 None of it fell over. 210 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Do you have any theories as to what this might be? 211 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:55,000 I wish I did. I wish I had some answers. I was a little doubtful at first sighting. 212 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,000 This was on the 17th we sighted the first one my man did. Then again on the 18th and then last night. 213 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,000 But now we've got too many people, too many trained officers that have also seen this. 214 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,000 So my doubt is gone. I know they've seen something. What it is I don't know. 215 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Do you intend to continue your investigation? 216 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Very definitely. We find out exactly what it is. I'm going to get some answers someplace. 217 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Are we going to Washington? It's fucking down. 218 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Are you working with us? Are you working with state police at Washington? 219 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Yes we are. Right now I'm waiting for a call from Washington but I have not received a visit yet. 220 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Washington R. County Sheriff Doug Harvey. 221 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:34,000 W.W.J. Newsman George Kruitt went to Weston R. County to get the story. 222 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:39,000 We're about 15 miles north of Ann Arbor at the Frank Manor Farm. 223 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:44,000 And just behind me is the site where the alleged flying saucer landed last night. 224 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Mr. Manor described what he saw. 225 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,000 That thing just lit right up and that's what we've seen inside of it. 226 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,000 But we couldn't see the bottom. There was something there but we couldn't see what it was. 227 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 You see the side of it. What the side of it looks like? 228 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,000 That's what I'm saying. It looks like a quarter or a quarter rock or something inside of it. 229 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,000 And if it was maybe it was spinning I don't know. 230 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000 I didn't get it you know. 231 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000 What did it do then when you got this close to it? Did it go? 232 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Well in the sun I said look at that. The whole building thing. 233 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,000 The morning sun said that the lights went off and that was it. 234 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 And the lights went off and off that knob and the boy came running pretty fast. 235 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,000 He was moving across quick enough there. It would wait on the other man. 236 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000 And the lights weren't even there at that. 237 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,000 That's in parallel with that tower. See that tower over there. 238 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 It was right in line with that. 239 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 So then I said I don't know what's going on. That was quicksand. 240 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 And there was a little light down there. That was quicksand. 241 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 That's how I don't know what was on the internet. 242 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 So we came around back and in near 50's. 243 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,000 And all of a sudden he watched us and there were up there on top there. 244 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,000 They had you know I guess they were trying to hammer in. 245 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,000 And they came down across there and right up on top of that knob. 246 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,000 And apparently they wasn't seeing their lights when they got up on that knob or whatever it was. 247 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000 And then we were all stood there just like we are now. 248 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:54,000 And it sounded just like somebody had took a high-pitched whistle and shot up a cane and it ripped the shade off. 249 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,000 And it was like ehhhhh. That's all that worked for it. There was no more. 250 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:03,000 Washington All County Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey said he thinks there's something to the reports. 251 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,000 What it is I don't know. There's something to it. 252 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Why do you say that? 253 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Well there's been too many people in the spot of this thing. 254 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 And I've always cried in the same way. 255 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 And it's just a... 256 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,000 I'm too illusious. I'd say yes, but you want to kill people. 257 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Well not as many people as I've seen it is. 258 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Now you better take your body with a dagger counter. What's that for? 259 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 I've seen it pick up any type of radiation. 260 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,000 See if there's any indication or any evidence at all that something might have come down in this area. 261 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 With some type of radiation. 262 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Well that's the story. Believe it or not. 263 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,000 George Prowitt, W.W.J. News. 264 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Hillsdale County Civil Defense Director William Van Horn says he watched an unidentified flying object hover over a marshy section near that city for more than three hours last night. 265 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:52,000 He was called to the scene by 87 Hillsdale College co-eds who also watched from the dormitory. 266 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:58,000 There were no sightings last night in Washington All County where a vehicle of some sort apparently landed Sunday night. 267 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:09,000 A dormitory full of co-eds at Hillsdale College along with that county's Civil Defense Director saw what they described as an eerie object settled in a swamp last night. 268 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Hillsdale is some 50 miles southwest of Dexter where half a hundred persons including police officers reported seeing flying saucers Sunday night. 269 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:27,000 The Hillsdale Civil Defense Director William Van Horn gave W.J.R. News this description of what he saw near Hillsdale College for several hours last night. 270 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Up here to be on the surface of the earth on the ground however I don't feel that it was because it moved very freely from left to right, right to left at various times which it would be impossible for any type of vehicle on wheels or on the ground to move. 271 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:53,000 That moved because of the fogging us in the marshy portion there. 272 00:23:53,000 --> 00:24:10,000 But at the time that I first observed it we say that on the right was a quite dim orange colored light and to the left was quite a dim white light. 273 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:20,000 And it was approximately 25 feet in between two lights. 274 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Hillsdale County Civil Defense Director William Van Horn, the Air Force says it is putting its flying saucer detective Dr. Alan Heineck of Northwestern University on the Hillsdale and the Dexter sightings. 275 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:43,000 The usually skeptical U.S. Air Force has dispatched a top scientist from Northwestern University to look into the rash of UFO sightings in Washington, Oc. 276 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Dr. H. Alan Heineck, Chairman of the Deer Force and Observatory of Northwestern, is the Air Force's scientific consultant to the UFO study program. 277 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:58,000 He's reportedly arrived and will be operating out of Selfridge Air Force Base near Mock-Levins. 278 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:04,000 His arrival comes in the wake of still another sighting of an unidentified flying object last night. 279 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:14,000 More than 80 co-eds and assistant dean and the County Civil Defense Director watched the UFO hover and blow in a swampy area near Hillsdale College. 280 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Civil Defense Director William Van Horn was alerted by the house mother of the dormitory after the girls there first spotted the object. 281 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,000 He came and saw and told WJR's Dave quite about it. 282 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:39,000 WJR's Dave was a little bit worried about the object being on the surface of the Earth on the ground. However, I don't feel that it was because it moved very freely from left to right, right to left at various times, 283 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:52,000 which it would be impossible for any type of vehicle on wheels or on the ground to move that smoothly because of the bogginess in the marshy portion there. 284 00:25:52,000 --> 00:26:09,000 But at the time that I first observed it, we say that on the right was a quite dim orange colored light and to the left was quite a dim white light. 285 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:24,000 And it was a approximately 25 feet in between the two lights. Now I was observing this with binoculars at this distance after dark. 286 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:29,000 It's pretty hard to estimate the distance there. 287 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:39,000 But would at times rise from its position just over the surface and upon rising, the lights would become more brilliant. 288 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:48,000 And at the time from our minutes of airport here, we had a beacon which was throwing a beam of light as a beacon does around the area. 289 00:26:48,000 --> 00:27:04,000 This is a vehicle seen to go up and as it would get up to a height of approximately 150 feet near the bottom portion of the beam of light, it became stationary and then would descend back down. 290 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:12,000 In other words, it would appear to me as if it was attempting to stay out of this beam of light that was coming around. 291 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:19,000 The description of the object generally coincides with that seen by more than 50 persons near Ann Arbor Sunday night. 292 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:27,000 One of the first girls to spot the UFO last night, this was Miss Josephine Wilson, an 18 year old freshman from Cleveland. 293 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:35,000 She said it gave off a yellow glow and seemed to quiver. She said she and the others watched it for several hours before it went away. 294 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,000 As for her feelings about UFOs now, she said... 295 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:15,000 On the local news front, an Air Force investigating team is looking into the rash of UFO reports that have taken place in southeastern Michigan. 296 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:23,000 The team is headed by Dr. H. Allen Heineck of Northwestern University, who is the Air Force scientific advisor on Project Blue Book. 297 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,000 That's the Air Force project to investigate UFO reports. 298 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:39,000 WJR's Phil Jones contacted the military chief of that project at Bright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Major Hector Quintanella, and had some questions for the major about the investigation. 299 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Well, one of the things that prompted the investigation is general interest by the public and the press. 300 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:51,000 And the other one is that we'd like to find out what the word, I mean, so many people saw it. 301 00:28:51,000 --> 00:29:00,000 You received word of any other organization, perhaps a radar unit with one of the Air Force bases or something, is also spawning these? 302 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Negative. We have contact with Florida Defense Secretary Spotted, nothing unusually unique. 303 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000 What was this investigation entail? 304 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:22,000 People are talking to the team for collecting their impressions of what they observed and trying to determine what the stimulus was at Project Seeders Bay in that fashion. 305 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:35,000 If the Air Force gets the same answers they've watched in awe and Hillsdale County Sheriff's Officers got, they're probably going to be a lot of people wondering if they're going to say the same thing the Sheriff's Officer said. 306 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:40,000 But the stories jive so much somebody must have seen something. 307 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:50,000 Flying saucers apparently took the night off. Authorities say less than a handful of telephone reports of unidentified flying objects in the Hillsdale area. 308 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:59,000 But knots of hardy sky watchers who surrounded reported landing sites near Dexter and Hillsdale spent a dampened fruitless several hours. 309 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:07,000 Today an Air Force investigating team will slog through the marshes and talk to some of the persons who claim to have seen UFOs in recent days. 310 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:15,000 Northwestern University astrophysicist Dr. H. Allen Heineck, the top Air Force advisor on UFOs, is heading the team. 311 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:22,000 A self-raised Air Force base spokesman will say only that the group will continue its search for more information today. 312 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:33,000 Sunday night a dozen police officers and upwards of 40 civilians witnessed the apparent landing of a saucer-like object in a field near Dexter, some 16 miles northwest of Ann Arbor. 313 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:43,000 Monday night Hillsdale County Civil Defense Director William Van Horn and 87 college co-eds watched one hover over a marshy area for at least three hours. 314 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:49,000 An assistant dean of Hillsdale College also claims to have seen the object. 315 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:54,000 UFOs Dr. H. Allen Heineck, IAPAS spokesman. 316 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:11,000 That is a basic fact so far as the people in the relatively few that are still trying to see and write are basically large, bright light coming for sometimes as much as two hours. 317 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:19,000 There are growing breakers getting there with the breakers, moving, rising a little bit and suddenly going in. 318 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:28,000 But very little as to any shape of a tangible object is the concentration that's been on light. 319 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,000 I want to tell you something about what you have found out so far. 320 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:46,000 The people seem to be sincere and certainly the Air Force and Project Global regard all witnesses who report these things as sincere and honest. 321 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:51,000 And in general we find that they are not finding any indication of a hoax. 322 00:31:51,000 --> 00:32:01,000 But I have no notion as yet as to what this is because in this situation it's likely part of a jigsaw to get together a little peace here and peace there. 323 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:09,000 And of course the whole idea is to separate a fact from the interpretation of facts. 324 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:17,000 Leverand, Genesee County reports five people stating that they have seen unidentified flying objects who have now crossed up in Clinton Genesee County. 325 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,000 Early this morning around 2.30 an unidentified person reported strange lights. 326 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,000 Out bringing a wooded area to the vicinity of Lafayeur and Dulce Road, Zinn and Berthenshawship. 327 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000 Genesee County Sheriff's deputies and State Police went to the scene. 328 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:36,000 Two of the deputies said that after an initial investigation which revealed nothing, they sat on their cruiser for about 35 minutes. 329 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:42,000 At the end of that time they saw a glow of light which lit up the wooded area for around 30 seconds or so and then disappeared. 330 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,000 They then went into the woods where they had observed the light. 331 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,000 But could find nothing there in the dense brush. 332 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:54,000 The Air Force says it hopes to come up with an explanation within 24 hours for those unidentified objects. 333 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,000 The investigation headquarters is at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at St. An, Ohio. 334 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Project Officer Major Hector Quin Canella says the investigation of the Michigan sightings in his words is beginning to shape up. 335 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,000 We hope to have a reasonable explanation sometime on Friday. 336 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:15,000 My thing, Governor George Romney says he's as much in the dark about the objects as the average American resident. 337 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:22,000 Romney says that the government has never filled him in on any possible research that might cut down on the reported sightings. 338 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:29,000 CBS News has obtained what are described as photographs of an unidentified flying object taken near Ann Arbor, Michigan. 339 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000 Where there has been a rash of sightings of UFOs. 340 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:37,000 Bill Platt has the pictures, time exposures and the story at Ann Arbor. 341 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:42,000 Sergeant Newell Cahes-Spider was out on patrol in the early morning hours of March 17. 342 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,000 He was riding with Deputy David Fitzpatrick. 343 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:54,000 They were among the first to observe the flora which has been seen in the Ann Arbor area around this county several times. 344 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:59,000 Sergeant Spider, can you tell us what you saw and how you happened to see it? 345 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:05,000 Well, it was somewhat of an oval shape. It looked like a toy top, somewhat upside down. 346 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:12,000 It was a blueish-yellow or a blueish-green color on top. The bottom was a bright red. 347 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:17,000 As far as glowy or blinking lights, there was no blinking lights on this object at all. 348 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:22,000 It was one solid light all the time between the two or three different colors. 349 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000 No flashing whatsoever of it. 350 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:32,000 When Deputy Fitzpatrick and Sergeant Spider saw this flora, they made about four pictures of the Milox camera. 351 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:40,000 These two pictures came out. They were enlarged by Detective Harold Kerr of the Washington County Sheriff's Department. 352 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:50,000 These two pictures are from separate negatives. They both show two light streaks, one here and one here, one here and one here. 353 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:57,000 In the same relative position from which the picture was taken, these were printed from separate negatives. 354 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,000 The resolution on this picture is a little bit better. 355 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Is that what you saw, Sergeant? 356 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000 Yes, it is. 357 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000 Are you relieved that there's something in the picture? 358 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,000 Certainly, I have a lot of harassment for this. 359 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:16,000 Could you tell us what we see? This dark part down here is what? A field? 360 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Yes, quite a field right in front of the fuel curve. 361 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:25,000 And then these lights along here, this was the housing section of Milam Village. 362 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,000 Street lights in the background and red lights. 363 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:38,000 And then you can vaguely see the outline of a clump of trees all the way across the picture and a house at the far left side in both pictures. 364 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,000 These pictures were both taken from the same angle. 365 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:54,000 Detective Kerr, the photo expert who made these enlargements from the Milox negatives, tells us that these two markings cannot be flaws in the negative. 366 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,000 He says there were no scratches on the emotion side of the field. 367 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:05,000 In addition to that, these prints were made from separate negatives and they show these light streaks in the same place in each picture. 368 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,000 Sheriff, what do you think about this now that you're seeing these pictures? 369 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:17,000 I don't know what to think about it. I was quite skeptical on this until I seen these pictures and there definitely is something there. 370 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000 Some type of an object. 371 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:29,000 The Air Force has promised a reasonable and logical explanation today of the recent crash of unidentified flying objects sighted in the skies and on the ground of southern Michigan. 372 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:37,000 Major Hector Quintanella of Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton says the official investigation in his words is beginning to shape up. 373 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:46,000 Last night, Washington, our sheriff's deputies released two time exposure photographs showing blobs of light that appear to be flying saucers. 374 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:56,000 The objects taken by Deputy David Fitzpatrick the night of March 16th indicate the objects were hovering over Milan. The Air Force is looking at the pictures. 375 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,000 During the night and morning there were still more sightings in southern Michigan. 376 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:12,000 Oakland County deputies Fred Olson and John Davis answering a flurry of telephone reports northwest of Pontiac said they saw an object with red, white and orange lights hovering then moving high in the skies. 377 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:23,000 State police troopers Harry Hayes and Richard Morgan on a similar mission near Pinkney saw an unidentifiable object that appeared to hover somewhere between Ann Arbor and Jackson. 378 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:31,000 Scores of students at Eastern Michigan University watched a pair of lights whirl and dive for several minutes high over the Ypsalanti campus. 379 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:36,000 City police there said they heard but were not asked to confirm the report. 380 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:47,000 The Air Force has called 1 p.m. Detroit News Conference for Professor Jay Allen Heineck to explain the recent crash of unidentified flying objects reported over southern Michigan. 381 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000 There were more reports last night and early today. 382 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:57,000 An Air Force investigator has called a news conference on flying saucers in Detroit today 1 p.m. 383 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:07,000 A conference was called by Dr. Jay Allen Heineck one day after the Air Force said it would have an explanation of the sightings within 24 hours. 384 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,000 There are no other details. 385 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:16,000 Unidentified flying objects of course have been reported in volume over southern lower Michigan the past week or two. 386 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:24,000 Dr. Heineck is a Northwestern University astrophysicist who has studied and investigated UFOs for the past 15 years. 387 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:30,000 He has been in people here in Ann Arbor and in the Hillsdale area since Monday. 388 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:37,000 Two Oakland County Sheriff's Dept. is reported seeing another identified flying object northwest of Pawdiak last night. 389 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:44,000 Dept. is Fred Olson and John Davis reported seeing the object that they said was not an airplane for several minutes. 390 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:48,000 They were in radio contact with dispatcher Jack Lawrence. 391 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:57,000 Lawrence said he contacted Salverge Air Force Base at Mount Clemens and quoted officials there as saying they had the object on radar but couldn't identify it. 392 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:03,000 He's been unable to get confirmation from Salverge Air Force Base on that report. 393 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:14,000 Meanwhile, Washington, Ocari Sheriff's Deputy David Fitzpatrick who spotted objects near Milan a week ago last Wednesday had taken pictures of the object with a sub-miniature Minox camera. 394 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:22,000 The films have been developed into photographs to show two distinct streaks of light high above the street lights of Carpenter Road. 395 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,000 No detailed objects are visible in the pictures. 396 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:31,000 Well, in one way we might say we've found out whose saucers those are. 397 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000 They're texture saucers. 398 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:40,000 We ran a story this morning announcing the Air Force would hold that news conference at 1 p.m. to give their explanations. 399 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:46,000 The phone rang immediately and the receptionist here at WPAT was informed he supplies that newsman up. 400 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,000 Those are texture saucers, not anaries. 401 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Confidentially, we've had a bad time with our farm department here too. They persist in calling them Milan saucers. 402 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:03,000 Repeating our first story, Dr. H. Allen Heineck says the UFOs were marsh gas. 403 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000 Nothing more. Many disagrees. 404 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,000 CBS News correspondent Steve Rowan reports from Washington. 405 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:16,000 The unidentified flying objects seen in Michigan have been identified. 406 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:23,000 The Air Force, as pictures shown last night on the CBS Evening News, reveal a couple of the objects clearly. 407 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,000 They are the Moon and Venus. 408 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:32,000 The explanation is that the pictures were time exposures and thus showed streaks of light. 409 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:41,000 In the more humorous sightings at Dexter and Hillsdale, Michigan, the Air Force says it's significant that the strange glowing lights were seen in swampy areas. 410 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:55,000 These red, green and yellow lights, which seemed to move about, disappear, reappear in other locations and rise into the sky, likely were just marsh gases, released from the swamp by the spring thaw. 411 00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:06,000 The night was clear, there was no wind, and the girls at Hillsdale College had the lights out in their rooms, enabling them to see the gases as they ignited spontaneously. 412 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:14,000 And besides that, says the Air Force, it appears that certain young men in the Hillsdale area have been playing pranks with flares. 413 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,000 Steve Rowan, CBS News, the Pentagon. 414 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:26,000 A flying saucer expert hired by the Air Force today dismissed reports of weird flying objects sighted throughout southern Michigan this past week. 415 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,000 Dr. J. Allen Heineck told the news conference in Detroit this afternoon. 416 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:37,000 It would seem to me that the association of sightings with swamps in these particular cases is more than coincidence. 417 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:43,000 No group of witnesses observed any craft coming to or going away from the swamps. 418 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:52,000 The glow was localized there. Deputy Fitzpatrick described the glow from beyond a rise adjacent to the swamp as visible through the trees. 419 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:58,000 He stated that the lights brightened and dimmed much as staged lights do smoothly and slowly. 420 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:05,000 The girls at Hillsdale described the identical things. This could have been due to the release of variable quantities of marsh gas. 421 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:18,000 Dr. Heineck of Northwestern University, who had spent three days investigating reports of witnesses that strange glowing objects hovered in a swamp near Ann Arbor Sunday night and in a swampy hollow behind the Hillsdale College dormitory. 422 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:25,000 Heineck noted his swamp gas theory was only a theory and applied to only the Hillsdale and Ann Arbor sightings. 423 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:32,000 Nevertheless, a prominent congressman from Michigan thinks there should be a further investigation of the strange UFO reports. 424 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,000 House Minority Leader Gerald Ford said this today. 425 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:45,000 The Congress should investigate the rash of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in southern Michigan and other parts of the country. 426 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:58,000 A congressional inquiry would be most worthwhile because the American people are becoming most interested and in many instances very alarmed by the UFO stories. 427 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:07,000 I firmly believe the American people would feel much better if there was a full blown investigation of these alleged incidents. 428 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:19,000 Congressman Gerald Ford, thanks, Dr. H. Allen Heineck, sometimes said that the gas caused the UFO reports. 429 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:24,000 There sometimes called the will of the wisp, not mysterious visitors from outer space. 430 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:30,000 He said they triggered this week's rash of reports of unidentified flying objects in Hillsdale and Dexter. 431 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:37,000 Scores of persons in Michigan and elsewhere from Maine to the Rockies have reported that seeing strange colored things in the sky this week, 432 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:43,000 Heineck disclosed his marsh gas theory at a news conference in Detroit this afternoon. 433 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:49,000 He's a Northwestern University astrophysicist and an Air Force consultant on unidentified flying objects. 434 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:55,000 He said in the news conference, a dismal swamp is a most unlikely place for a visit from outer space. 435 00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:02,000 He said his swamp gas theory applies to the sightings near Ann Arbor and Hillsdale only since they're the only ones that he's investigated. 436 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:09,000 He had nothing to say about scores of other reports of UFOs which continue to flow in from around Michigan and the nation. 437 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:21,000 Heineck said, roti vegetation produces swamp gas which in his words can be trapped by ice and winter conditions and then be suddenly released in some quantity when the ground thaws. 438 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:27,000 He said the flame is a form of chemical luminescence and as low temperature as one of its peculiar features. 439 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:32,000 He said swamp gases sometimes make popping noises when they're set off. 440 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:38,000 And that he said would explain the sounds heard by witnesses who thought that they'd seen something from outer space this week. 441 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:45,000 Heineck said in conclusion, I emphasize that I cannot prove in a court of law that this is the full explanation of these sightings. 442 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:53,000 It appears very likely however, the combination of conditions of this particular winter and unusually mild one in this area. 443 00:44:53,000 --> 00:45:01,000 The peculiar weather conditions that night were such as to have produced this unusual and puzzling display. 444 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:09,000 Sightings of unidentified flying objects in Michigan earlier this week have been followed by reports of similar sightings in other places. 445 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:18,000 But don't be alarmed. There's no indication that little men are going to come trooping into your living rooms tonight or any time this year perhaps. 446 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:26,000 The Air Force investigator who has looked into the Michigan episodes believes they were illusions created by marsh gas. 447 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,000 The so-called glowing objects were seen in swampy areas. 448 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:39,000 Of course the report of the investigator, the highly qualified Dr. J. Allen Heineck, will not convince anyone who numbers himself among the true believers. 449 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:46,000 Those who are firmly convinced there are such things as flying saucers no matter what evidence there is to the contrary. 450 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,000 It's not difficult to sympathize with such beliefs. 451 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:55,000 The notion of men coming from other planets to inspect our own is both exciting and intriguing. 452 00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:01,000 It's been the theme of science fiction stories in our own day and a subject for ancient legends too. 453 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:10,000 One such legend told about the biblical character Heineck says he saw two very tall men in a dream that they took him on a tour of seven different heavens. 454 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:15,000 There he saw strange creatures and learned the secrets of the stars and the planets. 455 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:24,000 And recent scientific discoveries have turned the attention of experts to renewed speculation about the possibility of intelligent life in outer space. 456 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:34,000 Project Osma, named for the princes from the imaginary land of Oz, was conceived by an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia. 457 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:42,000 It has made use of a radio telescope to listen in on the heavens trying to determine whether anyone out there is trying to get in touch with us. 458 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,000 Up to now no such messages have been received. 459 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:50,000 But scientists nowadays say it's highly probable there is life in outer space. 460 00:46:50,000 --> 00:47:00,000 One of the more well-known and conservative points out that space extending to infinity contains more objects than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of the world. 461 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:08,000 Scientists also say that an improbable single event may become highly probable if the number of events is very great. 462 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:13,000 Following this reasoning, it's highly probable there is another world like ours. 463 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:28,000 The imaginary notion about space travel holds that vehicles now hovering over the earth are actually earth men returning home after a round trip into space that they departed aions ago during another civilization. 464 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:33,000 It's said they're confused. Their former cities are now cool fields. 465 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:39,000 The space-time relationship expressed in the theory of relativity gives this a surface possibility. 466 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:47,000 A 60-year round trip to outer space would bring the travelers home some 5 million years after their departure. 467 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:55,000 The space vehicle would have traveled 2.5 million light years into space, but the occupants would be only 60 years older. 468 00:47:55,000 --> 00:48:02,000 But scientists point out such a journey would require a combination of matter and antimatter as the most efficient fuel, 469 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:06,000 and hundreds of thousands of tons of this fuel would be needed for the voyage. 470 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:12,000 This has been to mention recorded on the CBS Radio Network, and this is CBS News correspondent Walter Cronkirk. 471 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:21,000 Rati vegetation in swamps which produce swamp gas producing a form of chemical luminescence. 472 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:35,000 That's the explanation of Northwestern University astrophysicist J. Allen Heineck after investigating two of the scores of reports of unidentified flying objects in southeastern Michigan in recent weeks. 473 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:39,000 So as one wag put it, it's more marsh than Martian. 474 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:45,000 Dr. Heineck stressed at the outset of his news conference that his explanation refers only to two events, 475 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:52,000 one near the farm of Frank Manor near Dexter on March 20th and the one at Hillsdale March 21st. 476 00:48:52,000 --> 00:49:00,000 Dr. Heineck said a number of similarities exist in the two events, both reporting lights glowing yellow, green and red in color. 477 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,000 In both cases a swamp, and he said, 478 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:09,000 It would say to me that the association of the sightings with swamps in these particular cases is more than coincidence. 479 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:15,000 No group of witnesses observed any craft coming to or going away from the swamps. 480 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,000 The glow was localized there. 481 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:24,000 Deputy Fitzpatrick described the glow from beyond the rise adjacent to the swamp as visible through the trees. 482 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:30,000 He stated that the lights tightened and dimmed much as stage lights do smoothly and slowly. 483 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,000 The girls at Hillsdale described the identical things. 484 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:37,000 This could have been due to the release of variable quantities of marsh gas. 485 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:44,000 Dr. Heineck also said a dislo swamp is a most unlikely place for a visit from outer space. 486 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,000 He did not say if he was jesting or not. 487 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:51,000 Regarding the Hillsdale event, I put this question to the doctor. 488 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:59,000 One of the girls in the dormitory said the object or whatever she saw did gradually go into the horizon, not into the sky. 489 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,000 Dr. Heusei was localized and not through very far. 490 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:09,000 You must remember here that I had a lot of individual reports that were conflicting, 491 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:16,000 and I used only that information which could be corroborated by several witnesses at once. 492 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:23,000 As for those photos taken by Washington County Sheriff's Deputy David Fitzpatrick and released to the press today, 493 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:30,000 Dr. Heineck says they are without question the rising moon and the planet Venus time exposures. 494 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:38,000 Dr. Heineck said he cannot prove in a court of law that what those people saw was marsh gas, but that's his considered judgment. 495 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:45,000 Last night there were other UFO reports, scores of Eastern Michigan University students said they observed two lights, 496 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:54,000 whirl and dive, high over the campus at Ypsilanti, and two Oakland County Sheriff's Deputies said they saw an object with red, white and orange lights 497 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,000 hovering northwest of Pontiac. 498 00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:01,000 Similar sighting was made by two state police troopers between Ann Arbor and Jackson. 499 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:08,000 Further to the west, truck driver Ralph Cotte says he saw a UFO while he was driving between Cassopolis and Niles. 500 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:17,000 Cotte from Akron, Ohio said it happened about three o'clock this morning, said the object, the lights, followed his truck for about a half hour. 501 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:24,000 I could flash the lights on the cab of the truck and it flashed its lights back, blinking them off and on. 502 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:30,000 Did you detect any kind of a code or did you think it was trying to communicate with you or what? 503 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:36,000 No, at that time I was just trying to more or less get it to come closer so I could get a better look at it really. 504 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:40,000 Did it come closer? No. It stayed about the same distance all the time. 505 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:50,000 Same distance and then when I got to Niles where M-16 and Route 12 come together, I pulled over the side of the road and stopped the truck and got out 506 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:54,000 and it's remaining at about the same altitude right over the top of the truck. 507 00:51:54,000 --> 00:52:00,000 You mean it just kind of hovered and midair there for about, well, maybe one or two minutes. 508 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,000 He also said it made no noise. 509 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:10,000 Cotte said he reported the incident to Bury and County Sheriff's deputies who came upon his truck shortly after he stopped it. 510 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,000 I asked Cotte about the marsh gas idea. 511 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:20,000 Have you ever seen a manifestation of swamp gas where there are apparently lights generated by it? 512 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:27,000 I have. I've done quite a bit of hunting and down in Florida in the little lands or in the marsh lands.