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It is highly possible that a UFO—or a group of UFOs—passed from Wyoming, crossed Nebraska, and then turned northward into Illinois and Michigan. Charles Tougas of the Meteorite Recovery Project at Lincoln, Ne- braska, was the man the press turned to for the answer. He said that special cameras had recorded the event, and he estimated that the “meteor” had appeared somewhere near McCook, Nebraska, and had plummeted to earth somewhere outside of Phillipsburg, Kansas, a few miles to the southeast. A search for it was launched at Phillipsburg, but the object was never found. If the “meteor” had enjoyed such a very brief life-span and had traveled such a very short distance in the western part of the state, it is very unlikely that it would have been so clearly seen in the Omaha sector hundreds of miles eastward and that all of the witnesses would have described it as moving to the southeast. And it certainly would not have turned up in Illinois—still farther to the northeast. The ‘“‘meteor’’ explanation simply does not work in this case. There are too many ifs and too many unnatural coincidences. All of the descriptions were uniform. A newsman in Brewster, Nebraska, described it as being ‘‘the size of a basketball; the white fore end changed colors, going from blue to green, trailing a long tail.” A young witness on a ranch near Scotia said it was “‘round like a basketball, with a brilliant band of orange light encircling it.’’ He said it crossed the southern skies and was visible for about half a minute. Witnesses in York, Nebraska, said it was green, while one report from near Pleasanton, Nebraska, described it as being a ‘“‘bright, whitish-yellow light.” Brilliant white lights were mentioned in a scattering of reports, but the overall consensus was that it was green or “blue-green with a red band around it.’’ Viewers in Kansas thought it was green. Only two groups of witnesses reported hearing any sound. Both were located in the central Nebraskan cluster. People driving near Arcadia said they saw ‘‘a flashing red light’’ and heard ‘“‘more than one explosion.” George Bremer of Ord reported the same thing. (Viewers of that 1913 “meteor” chain in Canada said that the objects produced a heavy rumbling sound, indicating that they were low enough in the atmosphere to displace the air as they passed.) One week prior to the Nebraska flap, a ‘‘green object with a long white tail’ appeared over Muskegon, Michigan, traveling a horizontal path from east to west. It was seen by police officers and other reliable witnesses. The date was Wednesday, July 6, 1966. The time, 11 P.M. At10P.M., Monday, July 11, a round blue object was observed over 138 / Operation Trojan Horse