1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,600 Dozens of people in Washtenaw County in surrounding areas have become firm believers in flying 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:09,720 saucers in the past few weeks. 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:15,120 For the weekend, more reports, 40 persons, 12 of them law officers reported seeing an 4 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:19,480 unidentified flying object land in a swamp near Ann Arbor. 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:24,080 Officers said four sister ships hovered in a quarter circle above the other object which 6 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:25,080 landed. 7 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:30,760 They said it then took off with a warbling sound like the echo of a ricocheting bullet. 8 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:36,320 Dexter policeman Robert Honowill said he and other residents saw similar objects zipping 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,840 through the skies early last Monday and again on Wednesday. 10 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,840 He explained to WJR's William Harris. 11 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:26,720 47-year-old Frank Manor, a farmer and his 19-year-old son Ronald said they approached 12 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,480 within 100 yards of the strained object sighted last night. 13 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,960 They said it lay in a swamp and had post-setting lights on each end. 14 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:39,240 Manor said it was pitted like coral rock and about the length of a car. 15 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,320 He said its shape was like that of a football. 16 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:47,000 Manor said his son then said look at that horrible thing and the craft vanished. 17 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:53,360 Six police cars chased the formation of strange objects but the objects vanished in the darkness. 18 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,520 In Washington, the Air Force said it had no report as yet on the latest setting of the 19 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:02,240 UFOs but that its investigative office at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton is 20 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,240 checking the incident. 21 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:08,200 Well, the Air Force is characteristically silent on UFO reports. 22 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,400 Police Colonel Frederick Davis says he plans to look into the matters. 23 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,640 We certainly are interested in these reports that are coming in and we intend to look further 24 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:17,640 into it. 25 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:23,840 We have men of sign now that are inquiring into it and expect we will talk with Washington 26 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:30,560 County authorities and with some of the people that are supposed to have seen certain objects. 27 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,440 What is your personal attitude toward these objects? 28 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:40,600 Well, actually I know nothing more about them than what I read or hear in the reports 29 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:48,920 but when you get as many people sighting something, sighted things last night in the Dexter area 30 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:54,160 and over the weekend, why I think its time to take another long hard look at it anyway. 31 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:59,200 I think many of these people certainly aren't the type that make a report just for the sake 32 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:00,200 of publicity. 33 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,960 That way you truly did see something. 34 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:09,880 State Police Colonel Frederick Davis, questioned by WJR Newsman Dave White. 35 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,400 This has just come in from Ann Arbor. 36 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,920 WJR's William Harris, reporting from there, has just interviewed the Washington County 37 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:17,920 Sheriff Douglas Harvey. 38 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:24,520 The Sheriff has understood you just completed an investigation on the scene of the sighting 39 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:25,520 last night. 40 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:26,520 What did you discover? 41 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,520 We found nothing out there. 42 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,320 There was no indication, no evidence of where it had come down, where the Mr. Manners said 43 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:36,520 it had come down, where my officers stated it in the area where it had come down. 44 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,520 Also the Geiger counter picked up nothing. 45 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:44,520 There was no flat grass, flat brush or anything that would indicate something had landed there. 46 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:45,520 None whatsoever. 47 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,520 Do you have any theories as to what this might be? 48 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:49,520 I wish I did. 49 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:50,520 I wish I had some answers. 50 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:51,520 I don't. 51 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:52,520 I was a little doubtful personally. 52 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,520 The first sighting, this was on the 17th, we sighted the first one my man did. 53 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,520 Then again on the 18th and then last night. 54 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,520 But now we've got too many people, too many trained officers have also seen this. 55 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:05,520 So my doubt is gone. 56 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:06,520 I know they've seen something. 57 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:07,520 What it is I don't know. 58 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:08,520 Do you intend to continue your investigation? 59 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:09,520 Mary, definitely. 60 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,520 We find out exactly what it is. 61 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:11,520 I'm going to get something. 62 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:12,520 I'm going to get something. 63 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:13,520 I'm going to get something. 64 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:14,520 I'm going to get something. 65 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:15,520 I'm going to get something. 66 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:16,520 I'm going to get something. 67 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:17,520 I'm going to get something. 68 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:18,520 I'm going to get something. 69 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:19,520 I'm going to get something. 70 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:20,520 I'm going to get something. 71 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:21,520 I'm going to get something.