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I'm with lieutenant John Walsh of the

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Parsippany Troy Hills Police Department

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Lieutenant Walsh was the desk officer on

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duty the evening

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of July 4th When the UFO incident which

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occurred in the Parsippany area was

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brought to the attention of this

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department

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Lieutenant Walsh could you tell us as

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best as you can recall exactly what

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happened on that evening

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well I came out on duty at 12 o'clock

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for the 12 to 8 shift

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and approximately 1205

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I began having a troubled with the radio

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Transmissions from headquarters to the

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cars from the cars back to headquarters

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I would transmit a message to the car

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and it would go out and all of a sudden

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I would get a very strong hum

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from the radio coming back to

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headquarters later on approximately half

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past 12 a male and a female came into

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headquarters and reported that they had

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cited an unidentified flying object in

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the area of Parsippany

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they walked up to me and they uh said

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that they would like if possible for

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someone to go into it or delve into it a

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little bit to see if they

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could get some kind of something or

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someone to uh give a little bit of

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you're probably aware that during that

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same time frame on that evening the

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Denville Police Department

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also reported a unusual type of radio

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disturbance and in fact did dispatch a

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patrolman and found that his report and

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the description that he gave us very

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closely lends with that which was

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reported to your department on that

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evening

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I believe that was a patrolman McConnell

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when I was given the call by the

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dispatcher I was in the center of town

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I proceeded down Bloomfield Avenue to

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route 46.

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the intersection I had a red light

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and I began observing the area of the

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Arrow Diner which is where I was you

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know sent the quality was sent on

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I pull out what I did I observed

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I had three lights

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one light once

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solid light another solid light and a

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rotating light on the bottom

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there was really no structure to be seen

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they were just like

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um suspended out in the middle of the

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flintlock restaurant parking lot then it

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began to gain height and headed in the

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easterly direction up over the trees and

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again it stayed for a few seconds in

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that position

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over the top of the building and then it

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just went directly down now I proceeded

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up 46. I was unable to find anything I

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really thought that it went down behind

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devil boat and Sport but if you look

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George and I

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met at the Parsippany headquarters and

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went out to the airport

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at Caldwell field to interview a pilot

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he told us that he had taken his

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aircraft up and closed in on this object

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and attempted to get closer to it for a

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better observation at which time the

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object took off at a high rate of speed

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he couldn't calculate the exact speed

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but he did indicate that it was

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extremely fast now the route that he

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took us also collaborates the route that

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the original people had reported to us

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let me start by saying that you know

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some months ago I became a believer in

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UFOs until that time I really didn't

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believe they did exist but I would say

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that since we've had the sighting

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locally since it's been documented by

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our Police Department I think that our

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chief and our police department has

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initiated a program of making the

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citizenry and the police within our

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County aware and I think that that goes

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some credit to Chief Fox and the deputy

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chief Denny I think that

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the average police officer is in the

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position to uh report these type of

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incidents

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with credibility and accuracy and

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subsequently the institution of this

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program whereby The Morris County Chiefs

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of Police Association together with the

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Sheriff's Department of Morris County

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will be putting on a one-day seminar to

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better educate the police officers in

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this County and how to handle sightings

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and reportings of UFOs

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I became very concerned when we had a

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sighting and where do we go from there

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now we have an obligation to the public

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so as to not to panic them I don't want

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to see another Orson Welles occurrence

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occurring in Parsippany Troy Hills I

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think it's an incumbent upon all law

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enforcement agencies on a local and

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County basis as well as the state and

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federal government

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to accept and investigate any reports or

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complaints of the public in the

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particular incident of UFOs

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I think the chief and the deputy chief

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will agree with me that our officers are

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not really trained in this aspect as

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well as they they are in the matter of

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criminal investigations I'd like to

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point out that this particular area of

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New Jersey has had several significant

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sightings in the past years

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and uh the interest shown by the

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Departments up here has I think

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indicated the need for some kind of

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program to assist them