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February 10th 1967, 1122, Erie County Sheriff's Department, Sundeski, Ohio, with Constable

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Gary Butler who earlier this morning cited a UFO over the NASA installation outside of

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town.

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Yes, this is Rick Hilberg of Cleveland and Earl Neff of Cleveland interviewing from

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ICAP. Constable Butler, could you just briefly tell us, run through the sighting and tell

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us what you saw on the approximate times and any comments you might have or elaborations?

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Well this officer, who I'm going to patrol, earlier part of Friday morning was going down

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one of our side roads, a shank road which runs parallel with the NASA establishment. I was

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going from the east to west direction and making my turn onto the main road when I observed

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a bluish bright colored disc object in the southwestern direction of the county. I observed

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this object for approximately five minutes before relaying the message to the Sheriff's

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Department to make sure that what I did see was a true thing. When I called, when I relayed

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the message to the Sheriff's Department, the State Patrol responded also. The deputy was

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on Route 250 approaching the bypass when he called to this officer. I observed the object

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in a stationary position approximately a mile and a half, maybe two miles away. After

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observing it for approximately six to seven, maybe eight minutes, this object began to decline

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towards the ground and disappeared behind a group of trees. At this time, I radioed to

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the other officers who immediately responded to the area and I myself went to the area to

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which I saw the object disappear to and after almost an hour and a half of observation, we

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could not locate anything. You mentioned during the previous interview when you were filling out

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our report form that you noticed some interference in your radio communications. Approximately

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what time did this happen and what was the nature of the interference? The time, I'm uncertain

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about, I would estimate summer around four o'clock. There was some static, I had to repeat my

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transmission two or three times because the deputy at the station could not understand. Also,

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there was two officers, I believe, from the Bellevue area who saw a light, a bright, a light

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object in the sky. We stayed observed for several minutes and they said it disappeared. I don't

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know if this was any connection at all, but it might have been a jet or something to this fact.

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Constable Broadford, I'd like to ask you, did you at the distance you were away from this,

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detect any sound, whatever, from the object? That's negative. There was no sound whatsoever. I

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did shut off the motor to my vehicle. I had the ignition on so I could hear my radio. I heard

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nothing. I shown my spotlight on the vicinity of where the disc shape object was, but the beams

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of the spotlight did not reach the area of the object itself. I'd also like to ask you, Constable,

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if you had any previous interest in this subject or have you read any articles or books on this

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particular subject in the past, in other words, have you had any interest in along those lines?

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I have read just a little bit of local newspapers and this and I have observed on the television

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and radio, but far as being interested in it, I haven't as of yet until this point been

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fascinated with it, you might say, or even interested in it. Unlike everybody else, I would say that

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as heard this or read of first people of observation, I too thought that they were nuts in some

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respects, but after seeing what I saw last night, my attitude may change. Constable Butler, could

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you give us a brief description of the weather conditions in the vicinity at the time of the

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report? If I remember correctly, I believe it was cloudy and the weather was cold. There was a slight

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breeze or wind blowing out of southwest approximately 10, maybe 15 miles an hour. The atomic reactor,

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NESA, was in operation, but this reactor was in the eastern part of the county or the

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establishment of NESA. Constable Butler, do you know did any of the people at NASA

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have any knowledge of this object passing anywhere near the place where it might have been or not?

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Well, I spotted about 342. There was a guard of NESA who went by the area about four o'clock,

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five after four, he said, but this had already disappeared before that time. But as far as

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anybody else seeing it, I am the only one evidently that had access to seeing this object.

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You were referring, I presume, to Plumbroke, right? That's true. Was there a moon or were there stars

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that night? I believe the earlier part of the evening there was a star out and there was a moon,

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but at this particular time I don't believe that there was any. Did you see any other cars passing

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you at the time on the road where you were? Negative. There was nobody on the road. This was

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pretty early in the morning and there was nobody on the road. Traffic was very light, if any at all.

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Did you notice any physical effects afterward, any yellow effects, any burning of the eyes or

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burning of any part of it, exposed section of skin or headache or anything of this nature

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after looking at this object? No, there was no physical reaction towards this except

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after looking at the object, there were same effects as you might see at when the camera,

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flash bulb, goes off in front of your eyes. I'd like very much to thank you for your fine

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cooperation, Constable Butler, and I know Mr. Hilberg is very appreciative. Are there any other

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questions you'd like to ask Rick? No, not at this time.