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evening. police station. But the events of September 3rd would not allow Officer Bertrand to be lonely on that particular At about 2:30 A.M., Bertrand received a call from Patrolman Reginald Toland, who was on duty at the desk, asking him to report to the stationhouse. When Bertrand arrived, he was met by Toland and a very shaken Norman Muscarello, 18, of Exeter, who had been hitchhiking home from Amesbury, Massachusetts. According to Muscarello, a huge glowing ball had come out of the sky directly at him. He had flung himself into a ditch and had taken refuge beside a stone wall. The UFO, which he estimated to be about 80 feet in diameter, had bright red flashing lights and seemed to be a solid aircraft of unconventional design. Officer Bertrand interrupted the teen-ager long enough to briefly report his earlier experience with the two women, who had described essentially the same object. Norman Muscarello went on to tell the policemen how the silently hovering craft had moved on to rest above a nearby farmhouse, illuminating the entire area. At last, it had moved on far enough to encourage the young man to leave his sheltering wall and make a run for the farmhouse. He banged on the door, roused the farmer, but the man could not make any sense of the excited words that the frightened Norman Muscarello was babbling. Norman staggered away from the farmhouse, ran back onto the highway where he had been picked up by a middle-aged couple who brought him to the When he ran into the stationhouse, Officer Toland had immediately seen that the boy was near shock. He gave Muscarello a cigarette, forced him to calm down a bit before he began an incredible rush of words about some mysterious flying object. When Toland had sorted out Muscarello's story and made sense of it, he put in the call for fellow-officer Bertrand. Bertrand remained frankly skeptical. It was obvious that Muscarello and the two ladies had seen something, but they simply had to be mistaking some kind of natural phenomenon for this monstrous glowing ball that had allegedly pursued each of them.