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9/3/65 - Muscarello, Officers Bertrand and Hunt, Exeter NH, 3AM
| Report Summary | "Norman Muscarello, then 18, now stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training
Center was hitchiking... to his home in Exeter. Suddenly, in the moonless
sky, a huge, silent, brilliantly glowing object came toward him across an
open field. Muscarello... leaped from the road into a shallow ditch and
watched, terror-stricken, as the object drifted and circled over a nearby
house... it was 80 feet wide and had red pulsating lights. It seemed to
back away and Muscarello jumped up and ran to another nearby house... but
the occupants would not admit him, thinking he was a drunk... an elderly
couple drove him to the Exeter police station... "Patrolman Bertrand remarked that he had just discovered a distraught woman parked on a bypass on Route 101. She told the officer that a silent object with flashng red lights had followed her for about nine miles and had approached within a few feet of her car... "[Night desk Patrolman] Toland directed Bertrand to go back to the field... "[after an unsuccessful initial search]... as Bertrand turned his back to the corral [near the house], the horses began kicking and whinnying. Dogs in the nearby houses began howling. "Rising up slowly between two pines was a brilliant, roundish object. It made no sound. It moved toward them like a leaf fluttering from a tree, wobbling and yawing as it did so. The entire area was bathed in brilliant red light... [Bertrand] grabbed Muscarello and yanked him toward the cruiser. "Bertrand called Toland at the Exeter station... "Patrolman David Hunt... pulled up in another cruiser. He says he also saw the object and filed a written report..."[footnote 1] |
| Hynek Classification | CE-II |
| Original Vallee Classification | Type Ia |
| Current Vallee Classification | CE2 |
| Minimum Distance | 300 feet |
| Object Appearance | "round" with pulsating red lights in a line. Lights went in a 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1
pattern; object often seemed tilted at 60 degree angle. |
| Object Behavior | Seemed to be roving, examined house, police officer, roved away, eventually left slowly along horizon. |
| Physical Effect | Affected animals |
| Medical Effect | None |
| Comments / Conclusion | An outstanding and classic multiple independent witness case. |
Footnotes
1. Look special edition, Flying Saucers, LC#67-17223