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you see." The folks around Exeter, New Hampshire do not pay much attention to Air Force disclaimers anymore. They know that something strange visited their village last September. 29. Swamp Gas or Spacecraft in Michigan? Frank Mannor, 47, who rents a farmhouse outside of Dexter, Michigan, and his 19-year-old son, Ronald, were astonished when a triangular-shaped object with flashing red and green lights dipped near them and then hovered over a swamp 500 yards from them. The Manners were among a score of people who described similar objects in the Michigan skies of March 21, 1966. The Associated Press carried an account in which Mannor described what he saw. "It was almost flat on the bottom, and kind of high and peaked on top. We couldn't see much except the outline and the lights at the ends, because the whole thing was wrapped in a light like a halo, and it kept shimmering. "It was like watching something across the desert. You know how the heat waves keep changing what Mannor and his son investigated the swamp after the object had disappeared. "We went down into the swamp, but there was nothing. No smell of an exhaust." Douglas J. Harvey, Sheriff of Washtenaw County in which Dexter is located, at first was openly skeptical of the validity of the sightings. "| didn't believe these reports," said Harvey in an AP interview. "But with so many trained police personnel and reliable citizens having seen them, | must believe something is in the Washtenaw County skies." The sighting of a Dexter patrolman, Robert Huniwell, may well have killed the sheriff's skepticism. The police officer reported an object with red and green flashing lights which, at one time, hovered "within ten feet" of the patrol car.