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to the state police on Wednesday. They said a white light flashed occasionally with a less frequent red light and a periodic green light. The object appeared between 10 P.M. and midnight and moved up and down slowly. ‘‘More than a dozen people have seen the object this week.” (Pontiac, Illinois, Leader, March 10, 1967.) 13. Illinois: Knox County Deputy Sheriff Frank Courson and twenty other persons watched a pulsating white and red circular object for several hours on Wednesday night. The object resembled an upside-down bowl and appeared to be about 2,000 feet off the ground. Deputy Courson added that ‘‘a similar object crossed over his car Monday as he drove along Interstate 74 near Galesburg, Illinois, but he was scared to tell anyone about it then.” There were also reports of UFO sightings Wednesday night in Warren and Henry counties, west of Galesburg. (Associated Press story, widely circulated, March 10, 1967.) 14. Illinois: State police and scores of others watched UFOs near Flanagan, Illinois, on Wednesday night. A state trooper named Kennedy said he had followed the object to U.S. 51 where he met two Woodford County deputies who had been watching it approach Minonk from the east. The object was a brilliant bluish-white and red. (Bloomington, Illinois, Pantagraph, March 10, 1967.) 15. Illinois: “Flying saucer reports, one of them from a veteran policeman and pilot, flooded the Knox County sheriff's office in Gales- burg Thursday. Dozens of similar reports poured into police departments in Moline, Illinois.”” (Chicago, Illinois, News, March 9, 1967.) 16. Iowa: ‘“‘On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights of last week unidentified flying objects were reported by several persons ...including Dr. and Mrs. W.G. Tietz, Connie Dagit and her younger brother, Jack Chadwick, and John Kiwala. The UFOs west of Eldora were all reported at approximately the same time nightly, at about 8:30 P.M. UFOs have also been reported in the Steamboat Rock area.” (Eldora, Iowa, Herald- Ledger, March 14, 1967.) 17. Iowa: A “‘saucer-shaped blue light’”” was observed Wednesday night hovering above Dam 18 north of Burlington, Iowa. Deputy Sheriff Homer Dickson said he thought it might have been a “‘reflection of a spotlight on the ice.”’ ‘“‘Wednesday’s sighting was the latest of several reported in the Burlington area the past two weeks.” (Burlington, Iowa, newspaper. Name obliterated. March 9, 1967.) 18. Iowa: Mrs. L. E. Koppenhaver reported seeing ‘‘a big red ball” sailing over her house at 9:45 P.M., Wednesday. ‘“You know how the The Secret War / 21