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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0D Was Balloon
20 May 64 Lansing, Michigan Q Probobly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP - 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Bolloon
Local £100 2145 ,2 00 — | 2X Ground- Visual © Ground-Rador o penta ers
cmt __21/02002 im, D Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar_ D Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS | 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
O Yes ODO Probably Astronomical
___&No ateiiaan ms al O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE D Other = _
Insufficient Data for Evaluotion
| QO Unknown
not reported = one each time not reported
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Observer saw three seperate observations of Made several atempts to contact witness

which one had definite shape and was not just | m throughout four day period andunable
a light source. Observed through BX. Witnessed | to do so. Possible association with some

by husband and neighborns. of the Lansing sightings camiiiibe,
| @Qyegfend Mr - Cannot wmnclude

on limited second ak hand data.

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television channels that night).

The locations from which the calls came were 211 close to the route of

the police car. In this investigator's opinion, all the calls at

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on 21 May may be attributed to the police-run.

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1. The Siren. Reports of strange noises, loopin

EXTRACT LANSING CITY POLICE LOG

The following reports of UFO's were extracted from the Lansing
City Police Log by TSgt David N Moody and William Powers on

13 June 1964.

Q 21 May 64, at 0302 am, aiey-report of Landing.
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ard noise from elephants in Logan Shopping Center. (jm)

2. 21 May 64, at 955 SP 15 yrs
old saw Flying Saucer at Prospect and Clifford. Bright with
15 foot diameter. :

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Qe 23 May 64, Saturday at 1235 om, QSnap -

reported UFO.

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| Az THE STATE JOURNAL Thurs., May 21, 1964

Lansing, Michigan

| Was it Martians? ©
Odd Sound Linked to Sky Object)

By DICK FRAZIER tions sort of slacked off, like a
Journal Staff Writer motor that has been turned off,

A as and then it revved up for just
The clock in Mrs. Elizabeth). ond and then quit.”

Hoxey's living room struck three! ¢04. said he had seen a shoot-

as She _. was awakened : by ‘@aling star a few minutes before,
strange ‘noise Thursday morn-|but that was before he heard
Wag. te et * |the noise, ~ :

_‘:Qthers reported hearing the] Mrs. Cole was the only person
sound’ on the city’s south side|\Who reported seeing anything

a connected with the noise.
seine Ge beewren iene eal “I was too scared to go {to the
MS: Hokey, OF ard window at first,” she said, “but

St., called city police to reporl|atter | got my daughter settled
she had heard a noise “like\down, 1 looked out toward Holt
something from outer space.” _° |’tq the southeast of her home)

About the same time, Mrs. Edjang saw this light-colored shiny,
ward Cole, 4623 Hughes, Road,|siiver-metal thing. It looked like

and her daughter, Wanda, 10,/3 creat, huge bowl, sort of spin-
were awakened. by a noise sheining It was just over the tops
later described as a high-pitchedio¢ the trees and it kept movin
, _, | ‘whirling sound. - away, not straight away like
, . “It was terrible und it lasted) you'd think, but turning in loops
fire ee ies o ceappnret
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-lvery shrill. sound,’ steady. for|OBJECT GLOWED
-lquite a while and then it drifted) She said the object had a glow|':
*jaway.” Jains but no other markings or lights.|;
The story, of course, has to|Neither her husband or son got
Oihave an elephant angle — andiup to look at the object, Mrs.
-Nicity police, investigating a simi-|Cole said, although her husband
nilar report of a screeching noisejdid hear the screeching noise.

. lat 1008 W. Dunlap St.—at first
mibelieved the noise was coming

from a trumpeting elephant at

cus.
NO ELEPHANT

But one elephant couldn't
make all the noise — and keep
it up steady for five minutes—
like police were hearing about
Thursday from. at least. half a
dozen residents living as far
away as Depot Street in Holt.
Elmer Speer, 1008 Dunlap St.,
said he had just gotten home
from work at Oldsmobile when
he heard the’ noise. It was ex-
actly 3 a.m., he said.
. “I know it sounds like I'm
crazy, or something,’’ Speer
said, “but it sounded just like
the theme music and noises on
‘Twilight Zone.’ ;

“And I'd swear the darned

dlthing landed over south of my

place somewhere. The revolu-

the Logan Shopping Center cir-|

Capt. Donald R. Knutson of
836 Sandlyn Ave. said the noise
woke him up about 3 a.m.

An army officer, Knutson ‘is
‘working on his master’s degree
in accounting at Michigan State
University. .

“At first I thought it was my
furnace acting up again, Then I
realized it sounded like a heli-

smoother running engine.
“I thought it was trucks on
Cedar Street then I realized it

not look out so I saw nothing.

“When I looked at the clock
it was 3:01 a.m. and the sound
lasted for a few minutes longer
and then quit. It sounds kookie,
I know, ‘but that is what hap-
pened,”’ he said.

The ‘Ingham County Sheriff's
Department had several phone
calls this morning asking about
a muffled booming sound.

copter but it was more com-|.
pressed and sounded like aj.

lasted too long for them. I did/¢

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LANSING—An_“ Unidentified Fiying_ Object” first saw the object while driving to his East Lansing know it sounds crazy (but) I'd swear the thing ae |

reamed across Lansing early Thursday, setting nerves _
—edge_and prompting police fo compare the _high-
tched whine to an elephant's trumpeting.

The bluish, circular object was described as “a great,
ge bowl, sort of aarp and a “light-colored, shiny,
ver metal thing.” °

Witnesees beran. phoning reports to tiavidig police
d_radio and television stations sliorfly after the first

shiings at 12:10 am

Many of the sightings were in an area near the
ygan Shopping Center at Jolly and Logan, on Lansing’s
uthwest side. ;

A 16-year-old elephant named Tulsa is on display<
the shopping center, and police told the first callers
at the sound they heard might be Tulsa trumpeting.
They changed their minds as calls poured in,

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home along College Road. ° | south of my place.” '

“It was very blue, too blue to be a » falling star,” he : Ww
said. “It was found, like a basketball, and was falling ‘The revolutions sort of slackened off, like = moté,;,
very fast. But I went to the spot where it seipeenren that has been turned off. It revved "P ‘again for a seconen

there was nothing.” ‘? then quit.” fh 3 i
Stanley Brauer, 40, and ‘his wife, Since: were “a Speer said. the sound was 7 “whirring ar ;

their way home from the Lansing restaurant he owns. } started low and got so loud and high-pitched it i
They first saw the object along Pennsylvania Ave, _ . “me,” - Pp

ee Army Capt. Donald Knutson, a graduate student | °°

follow it but it was going so fast that it was gone, Michi State U ‘ty. said. “I thoueht it
phéft! just like that. It looked like it fell in Seott’s Woods chigan State University, said, pa oe ads,
furnace acting up -again. Then I realized it sound,

rs. Edward Cole, 50, of Lansing, said, i ‘P like a helicopter’ (or) trucks on Cedar St. But it last, -

like a great, huge bowl. It kept moving away, turning too long for that.” . =
in loops as it disappeared, It was a terrible, sae shrill One unidentified woman said she saw the UFO la

uind that lasted about five minutes. - then take off again ie i es

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, Preliminary Investigation of UFO Reports, May 1B ~- 2, 1964.
ay Willian T. Powers, Systems Ingineer, Dearborn Observatory

On Friday night, May 22-23, I made a brief telephone survey in response
to a request by J. A. Hynek, “irector of Dearborn Observatory, following his
apprisal of a UPI report of sightingsin Lansing, Michigan.

My first call was to UPI in Chicago; a repobt of a UFO sighting had come
R in, but from Marion, | Indiana, A subsequent call to UPI in Lansing established
that reports were coming independently from both locations, |

I contacted the Police Departmdnt in kaa Marion, and was inmeried that
police of ficers in the Marion force end in police departments of s t Chhee ding
tows é Tipton, Hartford, Tapton cae Sheriff's office, POA hed
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witnessedjeither single lights or groups of lights, both stationary and moving,

which struck witnesses as unusual enough to report, Calls to several of the
other departments in the area did not add much information, as the witnesses were
| ‘on patrol or were not on duty at the time. In every case I was assured that the
| witnesses would be available if a complete investigation were carried out; in most
cases the sightings were logged, or else the force is smal1 enough that the
individuals involved will be easy to find, |

I did succeed in locating one witness who saw an orange Light low in the
naukieeet sky, apparently "200 - 500 feet high, three to six miles away", having
driven to the west end of town ( Hartford City){/ after hearing over his police car

radio comments about other sightings in progress, Kexmm=pamizaxhikaim The officer,
Robert Meredith, reports that the Blackford Cnet yan -eaaiennaigeiniaS, on =
another man nenedelamniaa also saw the orange light. It. seems clear that the

object was Venus, just prior to setting.
The other reports may involve more definite motion, ami some involve

multiple objects ( at least one observation through binoculars), so the Venus
explanation cannot readily be extended without further information.
Having established that enough information could be obtained throuzh the

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. The first Lansing call was to the Lansing Police Department, where I |

Re
spoke with Sgt. R&k@/Snyder. A series of calls had been received from residents
Wedne sday |

of Southern Lansing for several days, starting at 3 AM Oi / SERIE IIO RAL TE, May
20. A list of names was obtained from the log of Wednesday, all from people who

‘complained of a "wierd noise." This noise was described approximately as shenkina
a "whirring" noise, starting low and going high, then stopping. In a subsequent
call to the Ingham County Sheriff's office, I was informed that at 3AM Wednesday
morning a police oar had made an emergency run down Miller street » employing |
new "warbling" siren, which the PR 2 described as sounding "wierd," |
When I read him the list of addresses of the complainants, he pusteneeee xr most
but not all, of them as being close to the Boube of the emergency mm.
It was also found that an elephant was tethered all night in a shopping cer
nearby, part of a Senet ian stunt. hag ‘
‘The reports of 3 AM Wednesday, therefore, may tentatively be connected wit!
the known emergency run, ab least those definitely concerned with noises, which I |

understand is true in all cases.

) Reports from Thursdzy’ end Friday night, however, camot be connected with
the siren, as objects were seen, There appear to be several independent sightings —

of different objects.
One object, @ bright blue or blue-green light, was seen descending "to the _
ground" ( that is, going out of sight following a downward course) by two people,

Mr. ae and Mr QM. Each was in his ow car on the wey home ©

vhen he caught sight of the object. Both were impressed sufficiently to: attienpt ti

drive to where the object disepppeared, end both seem to have thought it might be

an aircraft in trouble, The men met subsequently, whilggmib wes acting in hi: |
capacity of television annourcer ( for WILX) at a renote broadcast from Sm! s

restaurant Be Bs in Lansing, and here they each learned that the
other had seen the light. Unfortunately, it eppears thet they have already comp2r:

their ctorses, as both ic ihibhis to me in Phone calle Sqturisy morning that

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the sighting took place at \'12:10 to 12:15".| Both men have agreed to cooperate

in any detailed investigation.

“One of the calls associated with the night of the gergency run pre a dey

drluuna Hae
mentioned was from a farmer in Grand Ledge, who peter the

_department with a report that he had seen a flying Sisae Land end take off again.
A police car 5 miles from the scene was dispatched, but before it arrived tha
farmer, whose name was not obtained, send that the object was gone; the investigatii

patrol reported sighting nothing unfisual, so the sighting was not logged: ar nane
shinim

of the farmer may be difficult to discover. ‘The farmer said the object was blue/and
roared and was
/15 feet in diameter. The police officer clearly believes the man to be "mistaken",

There are several more Seneees which need to be straightened out better then
I could do over the telephone. One involves two men coming home from the night shift

-(apparently) at Oldsmobile, on and a "(RMN the two men were

they
» dn a car parked in front of Guemtrhouse when/heard a weird noise ( apparently not

the siren - time is wrong) and saw an object that looked like a shooting star
going behind the house, It made ( or something made) a sufficiently impressive noise
that GF vite aed out of bed, terrified, the sound having awakened her.
Between phone calls to. et GQMMon Saturday morning, I received
an ‘unsolicited call from a reporter, Dick Frazier of the Lansing State-Journal, wh
was trying to find out if my calls of the night before were legitimate, and who had
another report which came in just after I had ceased operations Friday night. A Mrs.
—~Siee EE 4... Lansing, saw three objects as 9:00, 9:45, and
11:00 PM on the 20th, at least one of which showed shape ( outline, not point source)
and mish was aa haeeee! through binoculars, Mrs. §js husband also saw the object$

and thef; rape some neighbors who also smm were witnesses. One object was described

as roughly circular with many little white lights on its underside, Mrs. did
not report until she heard of other reports, for fear she would be c alled crazy.

Frazier says she is willing to talk to scientists from Northwestern ( Frazier informe:
EGG 's address is described asb eing "near

her of our investigations). Mrse

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—e, a street which eppears on the list of comfainants ( not in chronological

involving a
order) from Wednesday night, and which should be checked as possibly techr:/differcn:

report from the "noise" reports,

Saturday afternoon the final call before making this report was received fron
at :

Sgt dasiunne the Michigah State Sanne in reponse to my request for 1s
information that might arise. He reported that a a —-lN
had just reported that she

_Lansing,/heard on the night of the 20th a very strange twhirring" sound from her

“back yom yard, at 9:00 or 9:15 FM. She saw nothing, but found a burned area in

her rani yard, about 10 feet by 4 or 5 feet in dimensions, Leaves lying on the &roun
were charred, but the grass underneath was not. She has saved semples of the leaves,
ead is willing to be interviewed, She, too, delayed her report for fear of ridicule,
until other reports were publicized, Her husband saw what she saw, heardthe noise,

This brief report actually represents only a small portion of the reports
that were received and logged at the police departments in the area, All police agenc:
ee quite willing to cooperate, and individuals seem to show a healthy mixture of
interest and skepticism. My impression is that a more detailed reading of the logs
ide together with exanination of records of wardomsrimzrociencton eme rgency—car
movements will eliminate the bulk of reports concerned with noises only, but that
other events appear to have occurred which require more detailed investigation and

will call for several diffent explenations.
pene ; agencies and
There follows a List of zexemms some of the/persens who made reports; this

is a very abbreviated list, and is given only for the purpose of aiding identification
of the pxroper log pages or proper individuals with whom to communicate,
MARION, INDIANA POLICE DEPARTMENT: 317 = NO $8131

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Richard Harrigan, Asst.

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TIPTON POLICE DEPARTMENT, TIPTON, INDIANA
TIPTON COUNTY(SHERIFF'S)POLICE Sightings Sunday through Tuesday, May 17-19,

INDIANA STATE POLICE

LANSING, MICHICAN POLICE DEPARTMENT : 517 — IV 5=7165 |
Sgt. Reif Snyder, desk, Gave following nmes: "yr “wneukable;

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Lansing: dHLCHIGAN STATE POLICE: 517 = ED 2=2521
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OFFICER Bassett at desk.

LANSING MICHIGAN: ¥IOayaaneeRitaoeee--

Saw blue light descend.

Lansing, MICHIGAN: 141, =pljggaagy assess

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LANSING, michigan: Mrs (iC eess., Lansing ( Near Simi.

Informant: Dick Frazier, of Lansing State-Journal, reporter.

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LANS/NIA
(night ) in mid-thirties - high probability of inversion layer. UPI reporter/volunté

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Preliminary Investigation ae UFO Reports, May 17 - 2, 1964.
. Willien T. Powers, Systems Engineer, Dearcorn Observatory

On Friday night, May 22-23, I made a brief telephone survey in response
to a request by J. A. Hynek, Yirector of Dearborn Observatory, following his
apprisal of a UPI report of sightingsin Lansing, Michigan.

‘My first call was to UPI in Chicago; a repébt of a UFO sighting hed come
: in, but from Marion, Indiana. A subsequent call to UPI an Lansing established
that reports were coming independently from both locations, —_ |

I contacted the Police Departmént in im Marion, and was indcumet thet

police officers in the Marion force and in police departments of s ding

stab Voter
tows ( Tipton, Hartford, Tipton fquntry Sheriff ts office, =ef) had
| dyxivy 'she Pas} qhxee Mak

. dtnessedjeitier single lights or groups of Lights, both stationary and moving,
which struck witnesses as unusual enough to report. Calls to several of the

other departments in the area did not add much information, as the witnesses were
on patrol or were not on duty at the time. In every case I was assured that the |
witnesses would be available if a complete investigation were carried outs; in most
cases: the sightings were logged, or else the force is sm3ll1 enough that the

individuels involved will be easy to find.
I did succeed in locating one witness who Saw en orenge Light Low in the

spb innt sky, epparently "200 = 500 feet high, three to six miles away", having
; driven to the west end of town ( Hartford City) after hearing over his police car
radio coments abovt other sightings in progress, KMexm=nmmtextimim The officer,

Robert Meredith, reports that the Blackford count yi, end
enother man named QI 22s 0 sew the orenge light. It seems clear that the

object was Venus, just prior to setting.

The other reports may involve more definite motion, ami some involve
multiple objects ( at least one observation through binoculars), so the Venus

explanation cannot readily be extended without further information.

Keying established that enough information could be cbtained through the

Marion police department for a future investigation, I tumed to the Lansing report

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7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING ,
Two observers. Light believed to be a/e crashing

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

2. LOCATION

Lansing, Michigan
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION

bs) Ground- Vi suol © Greund-Radar
© Air-Intercept Rodar

0 Air Visual

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civilian
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE

one NE

11. COMMENTS
METEOR observation

wy both observers at different locations about
3 miles apart. Thought a/c was crashing not mrae
than 3 - 4 miles away and made attempt to get tk
location. O bj was traveling to NE in downward

arc. No change in brightness.

See Lansing Case file also.

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12. CONCLUSIONS

Wes Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon

Was Aircroft
Probobly Aircroft
Possibly Aircroft

Was AstronomicaiMeteor
Probably Astronomicel
Possibly Astronomical

Other See =
Insufficient Deta for Evaluction
Unknown

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station WIIX, ReSiaGn. Michigan, ———— proprietor of

; a Iansing, were both driving home at 0010 to 0015, Friday,

22 Maye Each saw a brilliant blue ight to the northeast, travelling straight down
at constant speed and brightness, Each said that the ooject landed 3-4 miles away,
and each thought of an airplane in distress, Both imnediately began driving
toward the place where the object had seemed to come dow. The object we
essentially a point-source, left no trail, and was in sight about ten seconds
raximum,

Mumm described the object as having landed indliMbe Woods, anM
described it as having landed to the northeast. At the time the +10 men were 2o0cut
three miles apart on a line bearing about 100°. When their lines of sight
are drawn on a map of Lansing, they are parallel within the limits of estinate,
and cannot be made to converge closer than about ten miles away, without making
either of the observers change his description of the direction substantially.

It is concluded that this sighting was of a fireball of unusual color, with

| @ slight possibility that a blue light was seen descending to the ground, but at
a mich greater distance than either witness estimated, The fact that the object
remained bright until it reached the horizon indicates the possipility that it
was seen along a path bearing approximately 030° from Lansing,

The fact that the brightness remained constant may be taken as evidence that
the object was remaining at approximately a constant distance (and hence, actually
travelling straight down) or that the object was moving rapidly away and becoming
brighter fast enough to overcome increasing atmospheric absorption and inverse-
square lew dimming. Since the object was described as "brilliant" from the ver,

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start, "the brightest thing I've ever seen," it mist have become quite specvtaculer
to ooservers along its path as its brightness increased. enough to give the impression
. ' of constancy to the two original observers ~ the chances, therefore, of its having

been observed farther northwest, assuming it was a fireball, should be excellent,

Lack of such observations may be given some weight as evidence against the

meteor hypothesis, if none are reported,
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O)1D-0015 EST, 22 May 1954, Observers, three miles apart
saw brilliant blue Light, constant intensity, moving straight down, aponeently
: landed a few miles away. Both saw to northeast. Possible meteor, with excention

of constant intensity Maintained over entire flight path. Lansing -Zast Lansing

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EXTRACT FROM SGT MOODY'S TRIP REPORT

The sound occurred after she had heard a siren going down the street.
The sound lasted less than 5 minutes. She had the impression that it
disappeared by going up rather than away. The sound gradually faded
out. Her husband was asleep and did not hear the noise. When he awoke
at 2030 pm, she informed him of this event. She seemed certain that
the sound came from up in the air and described it as like a top wound
up. She also "felt" like someone was watching her. She could feel the
sound more than hear it. Information regarding the sample of leaves
revealed that at 1715 on the following day as she took out rubbish to
the incinerator she noticed charred leaves in the garage doorway. A
roof extends above this location. An alley permitting only one car
‘passes this door. No foliage surrounding the area was charred. No
ashes or any indications of a fire or burned area were near the charred
leaves. Trees and foliage completely cover the area. It is therefore
assumed that the charred leaves were dropped or carried to this spot by
wind from a source not near the garage. It is possible that the noise
heard by Mrs @jgm™® is the noise heard by dititieee =: other witnesses ~
in the area during this period. The leaf sample contains no radioactive
or unusual substance.

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% From the residence Sgt Moody proceeded to contact
i at his restaurant, the ini ee’ and rejoined
It was determined that Mr wife had observed a meteor.
- The duration of two seconds ea a description that the object looked like
an aircraft in flames crashing are in accord with this analysis. Mréip
WI bead also observed the object at the same time.. A check of a
local map and the direction that both reported the object indicates that
their line of sight was parallel to the iE, indicating that the meteor

was a considerable distance away

PE CRABE,

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Whining Ok

Special tothe Free Press
LANSING—An_“ Unidentified Piving. Object”
ecreamed across Lansing set Mica! settin 2]
on—edge__and prompting police to compare the _high-

pitched_whine to an elephant's trumpeting.
The bluish, circular object was described as “a great,
huge bowl, sort of spinning” and a “light-colored, oy

silver metal thing.” * * »

Watnesses began phoning reports to Laticing lice
and ‘radio and television stations shortly afte alter the first
,Bightings at 12:10 a.m . re
Many of the sightings were in an area near the
_ Logan Shopping Center at Jolly and Logan, on Lansing’s |
‘ southwest side. , (to the east).”
, A’ 16-year-old elephant named Tulsa is on display<
at the shopping center, and police told the first callers
that the sound they heard might be Tulsa trumpeting.
= They changed their minds as 5 calls poured in, -

SS .
: = ~ Sagas te <* re on» . te eo

_

i

home along College Road,

there was nothing.”

= that — about five minutes,

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=e 3, Section A

ect in’ Sky

Don Weigandt,:30, 2 television newscaster in Jackson;
first saw the object while driving to his East a.

“It was very bine, too blue to be a falling star,” hie’
sald, “It was tound, like a basketball, and was falling
very fast. But I went to the spot where it chappearet,

Stanley Brauer, 4, and his wife, Blanche; were on
their way home from the Lansing restaurant he owns.
They first saw the object along Pennsylvania Ave.

“Its speed was terrific,” Brauer said. “We tried to
follow it but it was going so fast that it was gone,
phfft! just like that. It looked like it fell i in Scott’s Woods

sing, sald, “It look
like a great, huge bowl. It kept moving away, turning .
in loops as it disappeared. It was a terrible, very shrill.

t ou +608 eatnis -@ ii

M ystif ifies Lai

Elmer Speer, of 1008 W. Dunlap, Lansing, ait + eS
know it sounds crazy (but) I'd swear the thing Sandepe
south of my place.”

“The revolutions sort of slackened off, like a mote,
that has been turned off. It revved "P again for a seconen
then quit.” eo

Speer said. the sound was a “whirring noise
started low and got so loud and high- -pitched it scat »

ab)

:

pam Capt. Donald Knutson, a graduate student

Michigan State University, said, “I thought it was e
furnace acting up again. Then I realized it sound“
like a helicopter (or) trucks on Cedar St. But it last pr
too long for that.’

me

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One unidentified woman said she saw the UFO 1a/°
then take off again. i Ne

““"“2y ©

Preliminary Investigation of UFO Reports, May If - 22, 1964. 3
2 William T. Powers, Systems Ingineer, Deartorn Observatory

On Friday night, May 22-23, I made a brief telephone survey in response
to a request by J. Ae Hynek, Yirector of Dearborn Observatory, following his
apprisal of a UPI report of sightingsin Lansing, Michigen.

‘My first call was to UPI in Chicago; a repétt of a UFO sighting had come
4n, but from Marion, Indiana. A subsequent call to UPI in Lansing esteblished
that reports were coming independently from both locations, |

i contacted the Police Department in kom Marion, and 12s theeted thet

police of ficers in the Merion force and in police png of s ig
tp Crier

towns ( Tipton, . Hartford, Tapton ene Sheriffts office, See hed
3 —, dyxiy she Past tlxee MgKk
. witnessedjeitier single vee or groups of lights, th stationary and moving,

which struck witnesses as ‘unusual once? to report. Calls to several of the

other departuents in the area did not add much information, as the witnesses were |

‘on patrol or were not on , duty at the tines In every case I was assured that the

; witnesses would be available if a complete investigation vere carried out; in moat
cases’ the sightishgs were logged, or else the force is small Sates that the
Andividualls involved will be easy to find, |

| ar did succeed in locating one witness who saw an orengs ) Light low in the
ae Ge sky, apparently 1200 = 500 feet high, three to six miles eway', having

driven to the west end of town ( Hartford City){ after hearing over his police car

radio comments about other sightings in progress, Smemmnmimaxthhaim The officer,

Robert Meredith, reports thet the Bleckford COUT, iT, 820

enother man nenafiiggeriso sew the orenge light. It seens clear that the
object was Venus, just prior to setting.
The other reports may involve more definite motion, and some involve
multiple objects ( at least one observation through binoculars), so the Venus
explenation cannot readily be extended without further infomation.

Heving esteblished that enough information could be obtained through the

/

Marion police depa axtment’ for 2 future investigation, I tumed to the Lansing reports./

pial” 4 eee <'

/

ap BO EEG EES lk OED, arenes

The first pensing call was to the Lansing Police Department, where I
spoke with Sgt. Ratke/snyder. A series of calls had been received from residemts
- Wednesday
of Southern Lansing for several days, starting et 3 Ad on/momn Re PALA, Hay

20. A list of names was obtained from the log of Wednesday, all from people who

complained of a "wierd noise." This noise was described approximately as zheezinm

a "whirring" noise, starting low and going high, then stopping. In a subsequent
call to the Inghem County Sheriff 's office, I was informed that at 3a Wednesday
morning a police’ car had made an emergency run down Miller street, employing a
new "werbling" siren, which the ages described as sounding ‘Mlerd"
When I read him the list of addresses of the complainants, he identified zou most,
but not all, of them as being close to the route of the emergency mm.

Tt was also found that an elephant was tethered al night in @ shopping center
nearby, part ofa prosotion stunt. :

The i of. 3 AM Wednesday, tbarefors, may tentatively be comected with
the known emergency rum, ab least those definit ely concerned with noises, which I
understand is true in ad. cases. ee

Reports from Thursday and Friday night, however, carmmot be connected tit} h
the siren, as objects were seen, There eppear to be several independent sightings
of different Bb iecte.s | |
| One object, 2 bright blue or blue-green Light . was seen Cescending "to the
ground" ( that is, going out of sight following a aownward. course) by two people,
‘ir. Ce, 2nd lr age ech was in his om car on the way home
when he caught sight of the object, Both neue impressed sufficiently to attenpt to

drive to where the object disemppeared, end both seem to have thought it might be

sive

an airereft in trouble. The men met subsequently, while wes acting in his
capacity of television annourrer ( for WIIX) eat a remote broadcast fron ie,

rar Re
c2 > vo aa in Lensing, and here they each learned thet the

"
other had seen the light. Unfortunately, it eppears tunt they have already compered

their etories, as both reported to me in Bhone calls Soturszy morning that

= PY ol

the sighting took plece at\"12:10 to 12:15", Both men have agreed to cooperate

in any detailed investigation.

‘One of the cells associated with the night of the eiergency run previo slv

dtc Sah Atep

-—— =| on

mentioned was from a farmer in Grand Ledge, who called the

a
,department with a report that he hed seen a flying slicer lend end take off again.
A police car 5 miles from the scene was dispatched, but before it arrived the
fermer, whose name was not obtained, said that the object was gone; the investigating
- patrol reported sighting nothing untisual, so the sighting wes not logged: ar name
: shining)
of the farmer may be difficult to discover. ‘The farmer said the object was blue/end |
roered and was
/15 feet in diameter. The police officer clearly believes the man to be "mistaken",
There are several more reports which need to be straightened out better then

o I could ds over te telephone. One involves two men coming home from the night shift .

-( apparently) at Oldsmobile, OE 23 Amana i The two men were
they

ain @ car parked in front of @@MMM house when/heard a weird noise ( epperently not
ne siren - time is wrong) and saw en object thet looked 1ike a shooting ster

going behind the house. It made ( or something made) e sufficiently impressive noise
that @wite jumped out of bed, terrified, the sound having ewekened her.
Between phone calls to gaia end QR on Saturday morning, I received

én unsolicited call from a reporter, Dick Frazier of the Lansing State—Journeal, who

was trying to find out if my calls of the night before were legitimete, end vho had
{ enother report which cane in just after I had ceased operations Friday night. A Mrs.

: -. ee Be > Lansing, saw three objects 2s 9:00, 9:45, end

11:00 PM on the 20th, at least one of which showed shape ( outline, not point source)
end which was pc biserves through binoculars, MrSPaRMRe husband also sav the objects
CU)

end they, called some neighbors who also =anm were witnesses, One object was described
as roughly circular with meny little white lights on its underside. Mrs > did

not report until she heard of other reports, for feer she would ke ¢c alled crazy.

B

Frezier says she is willing to talk .to scientists from Northwestern ( Frazier informed

2 . e a¢ 2 | SS is de ser ibed 2s re) ner hs ”
her of our investigations). Mrse oe caress eing "near

' involving a
order) from Wednesday night, and which should be checked as possibly ames Cf Eeront

report from the "noise" reports.
Saturday mt ie the final call before making this reer wes ‘recetyed from
to Up)
Sgt casto ihe the Michigeh State Police, in reponse to my request for additional
information thet might arise. He reported that a — 9
had just reported thet she | :
Lansing,/heard on the night of the 20th a very strange "whirring" sound from her

“back yaar yard, at 9:00 or 9:15 FM. She sew nothing, but fond a bummed area in

her acai yard, about 10 feet by 4 or 5 feet in dimensions, Leaves lying on the ground
wore charred, but the grass underneath was not. She has saved sauples of the leaves, —
end. is willing to be interviewed. She, too, delayed her report for fear of ridicule,

util other reports were ‘publicized, Her husbend sav vhat ‘she saw, heard the noise,

This brief report actually represents only a small portion of the reports
that were received and logged at the police Aupattaate in the area, All police agencies
appear quite willing to cooperate, and individuals seem to show a healthy mixture of -
interest end skepticien, My peer enenee is that a more detailed reading of the Tig
yack together with exanination of records of xarisomptesetoorinn eme rgency—cer
movements will eliminate the bulk of reports concerned with noises only, but that

other events eppear to have poecad which require more detailed imvestigation and .

Fo} rill call for severe) diffent explenations.
Pg Se ee ae agencies and —

There follows a list of mosm™m=s some of the/perscns who made reports; this
is a very abbrevieted List, and is given only for the purpose of aiding identification

of the proper log pages or proper individcuels wath whom to commmicate,

MARION, INDIANA POLICE DEPARTINT: 317 = NO e-8131

hk canywight
Tom Dennis, Chief Se hey ee Rafer: Bana Aa me Want cw) )

Richard Harrigan,

KOKOM 0, INDIANA POLICE DEPARTMENT (SHERIFF's POLICE). 317-cr, 2-2hhh

HARTRORD CITY POLICE. DEPARTMENT 317 = 348-3730
ie officer Robert 2 Mowacitt saw nmence Vick 7 Jan tien

TIPTON POLICE DEPARTMENT, TIPTON, INDIANA
TIPTON COUNTY(SHERIFF'S)POLICE Sightings Sundey through Tuesday, May 17-19.
INDIANA STATE POLICE

LANSING, MICHICAN POLICE DEPARTMENT : 517 — IV 5=7165 |

Sgt. Reif Snyder, desk. Gave following nmes: Nerd avenrlal Ay

- we Sees 82:2:
aE:

( se ak ae (This one fer from emergency run)
i . | g/ Vreven. (this one neer@e residence?)
| | rs lg Tring

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ae vrs ies... Lansing erent

-

a a Se Lensing ( Emergency rum was down §ipr

MASON, MICHTCAN: INGHAM COUNTY SHER GRIFF'S FOLICE ( originators of energency run)
: | fel ~- OR 7-9661 .
Lansing: MICHTGAN STATE POLICE: SLT = ED 2=2521
Investigated call from farmer about saucer Landing «
OFFICER Bassett at desko
> er,

| LANSING MICHIGAN: x ogee RIMM ete

: Saw blue light descend.

@
} Lansing, MICHICAN: itr. spe

re, Saw same blue light.

Informant: Dick Frazier, of Lensing Stete-Journal, reporter.

PRELIMINARY WEATHER RETORT: temperetures in area on Wed, May 20, and Thursday May 21

(LANS)Ai
(night ) in mid-~thirties . - high probability of inversion Layer. UPI reporterjuiinteered

information thet he received 1, television channels Wed spigiee

ee Se ee ee ~equni lief di5,

The first Lansing call was to the Lansing Police Department, where I

spoke with Sgt. Ritt/Snyder. A series of calls hed been received from residents
wi - Wednesday a

of Southern pensing for several days,¢starting et 3 Av on/Smoingmmorning, May

20. A list of names was obtained from the log of Wednesday, all from people who

‘complained of a "wierd noise." This noise was described approximately as shexizinm

a "whirring" noise, starting low and going high, then stopping. In a subsequent
cali to the Ingham County Sheriff's office, I was informed thet at 3AM Wednesday
morning a police car had made an emergency run down Miller street, employing @

new "warbling" siren, which the PS hatha described as sounding "wierd,"

When I read him the list of addresses of the complainents, he identified =m most,
but not all, of them as being close to the route of the emergency rm. |

It was also found that an elepnant wes tethered all night in a shopping center

nearby, part of a promotion stint.

The reports of 3 AM Wednesday, therefore, may tentatively be connected with
the known emergency run, 26 least those definitely concerned with noises, which Ue
understand is true in all ceases.

Reports from Thursdzy end Friday night, however, camot be conne ebedith
the siren, as objects were seen, There eppee> to be several independent sightings
of ditterent chieche. |

One object, 2 bright blue or blue-green light, was seen descending "to the
groud" ( that is, going cut of sight following a downward course) by tyo people,

i> ga end Mrqu@lllemcech was in his om car on the way home

| when he caught sight of the object. Both were impressed sufficiently to: attenpt to

drive to where the object disenppeered, end both seem to have thought it might be

an eireraft in trouble. The men met subsequently, while Weigendt wes acting in his

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their etories, 2s both reported to me in Bhone cals octu. ‘sy morning that

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bipated PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD Sitaaewiee,

1. DATE ; 2 LOCATION 12, CONCLUSIONS
26 May 64 ansing, Michigan  Prebebly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O. Possibly Belloon
Local 2131, 2330 2345 XX Ground- Vi suel O Ground-Rader 2 pakeue Ate cake
omT_£ l 0 2302 D Air Vieeol D Air-Intercept Radar | O Possibly Aircroft
5S. PHOTOS » SOU 10 Was Astronomical
é 0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomicol
XIX Ne civ ilian aa 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE pe Other _Unneliable—ae+—
2 Insufficient Dote for Evaluation
not reported - 1,2,10 East,West,West |9 Unknown

= —

11. COMMENTS

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Witness referred to as publicity seeker saw |

and reported a UFO to FAA and press. UFO in Witness regarded as a publicity seeker
flight to East. Two hours later he saw

2 UFO's heading West and later reported 10
UFO's heading West. Reported all this to

Police headquarters East Lansing (State Police)

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)

«

1. DATE

27 May 64n

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Lecal
GMT 28 /0200Z,

5. PHOTOS:
“ “ O Yes
IX No

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

45 minutes still there
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION

& Ground- Vi suel
0 Air Visual

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

one

Observer reported that for 45 minutes she had
beenobserving an obj flashing or rotating red
light directly West of her home. Motion toward
and away from one star to it's Noth. Obj
stationary for a couple of seconds and then
ved either up or down and then toward that

Star. Far away and high.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)

|"

0 Greund-Rodor
D Air-Intercept Radar

% COURSE

West
1. COMMENTS

Oo0 oud oDD oOoO

12, CONCLUSIONS

Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probobly Aircroft
Possibly Aircroft

Was Astronomical VOnus
Probably Astronomicol
Possibly Astronomical

Other

Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
Unknown

—_—

VENUS at 6.40h w/decl of +18. This
place obj at about 290 az 15 deg elev
at time of sighting. Motion along
ecliptic to Nath and setting slowly
(2230). Star toward which obj moved was
Capella, at 320 az 20 deg elev.

— - ws one _ = ’ .SGf Sess 6 = = —— mee AS a -< _— » - —— ————————————
i ———— : * Lm

mum, 2 strecst which appears on the list of complainants ( not in chronological

anvolvd
order) from Wednesday night, end which showld be checked as possibly iz imrtres/4bf Fesent

report from the "noise" reports,

dg be ved axternoor the finel call before making this report wes receiged from

Sgt costo ihe the Michigeh State Police, in reponse to my request for

. v additional
information that might aiee, He reported that a Mrs, |
had just reported thet she Peron

hensing,/heard on the night of the 20th a very strange twhirring" sound from her

\

back x= yard, at 9:00 or 9:15 PM. She saw nothing, but found a burned area in

her yum yard, about 10 feet by 4 or 5 feet in dimensions, Leaves lying on the ground

were charred, but the grass underneath was not. She has saved samples of the leaves,
end is willing to be interviewed, She, too, delayed her report for ‘fear of ridicule,

until other reports were publicized, Her husbend saw vhat she saw, heard the noise,

This brief ent actually sepmawaata only a small portion of the reporta
that were received and logged at the police departments in the Aree Ald police agencies
appear quite willing to coopere te, and individuals seem to show a healt hy mixture of a
interest end ‘ekepticlen. iy inpresst on is that a more detailed reading of the logs |
2k together with exanination of records of saarimrtinseosiere ism ome rgency-car
movements will eliminate the bulk of reports concerned with noises only, but: that
other events appear to have occurred which require more detailed imvestigation and .
probably will call for several diffent explenations.

egencies end —

There follows a list of yasmoms some of the/persens who made reports; this

is a very abbreviated list, and is given only for the purpo se of aiding identification

of the proper log pages or prorer individuels with whom to communicate,

MARION, INDIANA POLICE DEPARTENT: 317 = NO §8131

Dennis, Chief , & rae orth co ) wryd

Tom
Richard Harrigen, Asst. Chief. Age: Mon Wr

KOKOMO, INDIANA POLICE DEPARTMENT (SHERIFF 's POLICE). 317-Gr 2h

HARTHORD CITY PCLICE DEPARTr ENT 31 18-3730 a~
cs Officer Robert, tlemad3* it pe a oe n lita atiare :

: eet se

= a

: err etl
~~ 55” wae ‘

112210 to 12:15".

the sighting took place at Eoth men have agreed to cooperate

in any detailed investigation.

“One of the calls associated with the night of the eer gency run brevic ee

ortuna Ha \-
mentioned wes from a farmer in Grand Ledge, who opted the Seem Sowtges

ld -—- ~~ —~S

department with a report that he had seen e flying Haas lend end teke off again,
A police cer 5 miles from the scene was dispatched, but before it arrived the
farmer, whose neme was not obtained, said that the object was gone; the investigating
patrol reported sighting nothing untisuel, so the sighting wes not logged: “ name
| | shining)
of the farmer may be difficult to discovers ‘The farmer said the object was blue/and
roered and was.
/15 feet in Giemeter. The police officer clearly believes the man to be "mistaken",
There are several more reports which need to be straightened out better then

I could do over the telephone. One involves two men coming heme from the night shift

(apparently) at Oldsmobile, ao < ie, The two men were

they
in a car parked in front ene _ aed when/heard a weird noise ( apparently not

the aioe - ‘time’ is wrong) and saw en object that looked like a shooting star

going behind the house » It made ( or something meade) a sufficiently impressive noise
thet ls wife jumped out of bed, terrified, the sound having awakened her.
Between phone calls Lac: Eon Saturdey morning, I received

an unsolicited call from a reporter, Dick Frazier of the Lansing State-—Journel, wno
was trying to find out if my calls of the night before were legitimate, and who had
enother report which came in just after I had ceased operations Friday night. A Mrs.
; ea... Lansing, saw three ebjects as 9:00, 9:15, and

: 11:00 PM on the 20th, at least one of which showed shape ( outline, not point source)
: end which was jobjserved through binoculars. iirs. @ehusband also saw the objects
end sages some neighbors who also =um were witnesses, One object wes described
as roughly circular with meny little white lights on its underside. lfrs qm did
not report until she heard of other reports, for fear she would be c alled crazy.

Frozier says she is willing to telk to scientists from Northwestezrm ( Frazier informed

igata Mrs. 7% s address is described esd eing "near
her of our investigations). lirse 3 EP = acdress is d a: eing

Athen ry ty ire Mei Wabtitiesie i. oT Pak Ea ais

——_———

TIPTON POLICE DEPARTMENT, TIPTON, INDIANA
TIPTON COUNTY(SHERIFF'S)POLICE Sightings Sundey through Tuesday, May 17-19.

INDIANA STATE POLICE

LANSING, MICHICAN POLICE DEPARTMENT : 517 - IV 5~7165

SEte Reif Snyder, desk, Gave following nees: MAL svenlable;
we ; \ Jee. Drive, Lansing

? | JQ AEE. 3... 2 ensing

if |

| ee Camere: Holt (Tnis one far from emergency run)
ff ei RE PR ta (this one nea. residence?’
iE fi nm el Lansing

rd

eer: Lensing ( Emergency run was down allie:

MASON, - wrcuitean: INGHAM COUNTY SHERIFF tS POLICE ( originators of emergency run)
517 - OR 7-9661
orm fas gretoemscstnrctbertaasmmeracniotm Songs smaaich acim

“Lansing: BELCHIGAN STATE POLICE: = ED 22521

Investigated call from farmer about saucer lending.

OFFICER Bassett at desk,

LANSING MICHIGAN: Mr, (imap pep spc,

Saw blue Light descend.

Lansing, MICHIGAN: ir, (iio...

Sew seme blue lisht.

ichigen: Mr eo» Lensing ( NeaS@QBast)
Informent: a Lansing State-Journal, reporter,

Set at Oak ol A il thik ee lial | ee FI Pe oe > “ea oat Pe) , 7 s Sree Orice ore

Milue PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD [Rew
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12, CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Ball
2l May 64 SA a! Lansing, Michigan 0 Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION OB. Fessibty Ballees
. O Was Aircraft
Local ai 08007 — & Ground- Visual O Ground-Redar QO Probobly Aircroft
CMTS Ses D Air Visual D Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS | 6. SOURCE DO Was Astronomical
O Yes QO Probably Astronomicol
@ No civilian O Possibly Astronomical

— ——— ~

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

5 min max :

——

one _

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

9. COURSE &X Other_Giren and Flasher

0 Insufficient Date for Evaluation
O Unknown

ak: aes

10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Multiple reports of sounds described as

weired. One visual observation of spiraling

light traveling in loops.

SEE LANSING CASE FILE.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

pene get Seton Thee Wi ee We ce Om ee ae 2

.
—— a —_————-

11. COMMENTS

Police run with new type siren. Visual
observations described as spiraling are
attributed to reflection of light on
police car (rotating) reflecting off
haze layer.

REPORT ON UFO ACTIVITY, MAY-JUNE, 1964
W. T. Powers, Systems Engineer

Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

(Summary on Page 19)

On June 13-14, 1964, this correspondent and T. Sgt. David Moody, USAF,
visited Lansing, Hichinen to investigate various reports of UFO activity and
apparently related phenomena which were received by local and state police
during the period starting on the night of 20 May 1964 and ending 13 June,

the last night of the investigation,

pa The Siren, At 0300 EST, 21 May 1964, the Lansing police department
began to receive a series of calls concerning a strange noise. Those who called
in described the noise as "wierd" and "loud," and insisted that it was like
nothing they Hae ever heard before. The names are listed in tne police los -
owing to the explanation which wes found, and the existence of these names in
the correspondence files, they are omitted (more than a dozen names are recorded,
and police say that after this many had called, they stopped logging furcher cals,
of which there were many).

The Ingham County Sheriff's Police department reports that at 0300 on
the date of the reports, a police car nade an emergency run along Miller Road (E-W)
and then north to a Iansing hospital, with its blue Means going and operating
its new "warbler" siren. This new siren employs e very loud tone which rises and
falls both in pitch and intensity at a rapid rate - two to three times per second,
The resulting noise is quite sufficient to account for both the nunber of calls
and the conviction on the part of the callers that something extraordinary wes

occurring. One woman, a Mrsg@@M, reported a blue object "looping" or "travelling

in loops" as it went by her house accompanied by the strange noise. It appears

most likely that she was seeing the beam from the police-car's rotating flasher
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