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mouthpiece. appeared." straight for him. The call had been disconnected while the man was still screaming excitedly into the The next morning, Lieutenant Cottrell of the Exeter Police listened patiently to the story his three officers told him. "If | didn't believe these guys," he said later, "I'd put 'em in a locked room and give 'em some blocks to play with." The Manchester Union-Leader and the Exeter NEWS-LETTER gave full coverage to the incident and listed several other reports of sightings by citizens of irreproachable reputation. Only the unconvincible, professional skeptics, of the Air Force remained to classify the sightings in the officially approved categories of "airplane lights" or "St. Elmo's fire." John G. Fuller, intrigued by the fact that the Oklahoma State Police had released a nine-page report contradicting Air Force analysis of sightings made by members of the police force in their state during the busy saucer summer of 1965, devoted his October 2nd "Trade Winds" column in the Saturday Review to the incessant contradictions between information given by saucer sighters and the subsequent evaluation of the reports by the Air Force. Deciding to apply in-depth reportage to the , sightings at Exeter, Fuller traveled up to the New Hampshire town and tape-recorded interviews with over 60 people who had seen UFO's. In an article entitled "Outer-Space Ghost Story" in the February 22, 1966 issue of Look, Fuller dealt with some of the sightings that he had discussed with the citizens of the Exeter area. He learned, for example, that: "Near Bessie's Lunch, in Fremont, dozens of cars would gather nightly at the base of the power lines, along which the objects would hover. "The Jalbert family living beside the power lines, reported constant sightings, dull-orange discs moving erratically along the lines. "The Chief of Police of Fremont, along with a half-dozen members of his family, saw an object hovering over his house and barn. An outside light, operated by a photo-electric cell, went out when the object