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does. ..." The officers decided that Muscarello should take Officer Bertrand to the spot where he had seen the UFO. At first the teen-ager warmed to the idea like a man who has been asked to volunteer for suicide mission, but at last, he consented to accompany Bertrand to the field between the two farmhouses where he had squatted beside the stone wall. Bertrand spent most of the time it took to drive out to the area in attempt to calm Muscarello. The youth was still shaken from his former experience with the object and did not relish a second confrontation. When they arrived in the area, Officer Bertrand parked his cruiser beside the highway, and told Toland that he and the teenager were going to leave the car and walk out into a field. It was a clear night, moonless and warm. The two men had walked about 100 yards out onto the field, when Muscarello shouted: "There it is!" "He was right," Bertrand said later. "It was coming up over a row of trees. There was no noise at all. It was about 100 feet away in the air, and about 200 feet away from us. | could see five bright red lights in a straight row. They dimmed from right to left and then from left to right-just as an advertising sign Livestock in the fields and in pens next to the barn began to stamp and make nervous sounds of fear. Dogs near the farmhouses began to howl. Bertrand noticed that the entire area was bathed in a blood- red light, and, fearing infra-red rays, he grabbed the teen-ager and they ran for the shelter of the patrol car. Calling Officer Toland back at the station, he shouted: "My God! | see the damn thing myself!" After listening to a few minutes of an incredible conversation between officers Toland and Bertrand, Officer Dave Hunt arrived at the field in another cruiser. Hunt was able to see the object "going from left to right, between the tops of two big trees" and was able to clearly distinguish the "pulsating lights." The UFO had no sooner moved out of the sight of the officers and the frightened Muscarello boy when Toland received a call from the Exeter night operator. The operator reported a man "so hysterical he could hardly talk straight" who had called from a pay phone to tell her that a flying saucer was heading