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instant stop." zero instantly." Emile Grenier, 55, said that he watched "a brilliant light in the sky" for about two minutes as it performed what he described as "an impossible maneuver" before it ostensibly settled hito a grove of trees just outside of Ann Arbor. "The light was traveling at 150 to 200 miles an hour," said Grenier, who lives nearby, "then came to an Lawrence Espey, a University of Michigan physiologist, said that he had seen essentially the same thing as he was driving in the area. Grenier told newsmen: "I know of nothing that could cancel mass (i.e. to make an object virtually weightless, giving it full maneuverability) as this thing obviously did from the speed of a small airplane to The area in which Grenier and Espey reported their sightings is less than a quarter mile from the University of Michigan's nuclear research space laboratory. Dr. Hynek had confined his investigation to sightings made near Dexter and at Hillsdale. Dexter is about 50 miles southwest of Detroit, Hillsdale about 100 miles west. Dexter Police Chief Taylor expressed his doubts over the astrophysicist's analysis of the "pyramid-shaped object" that the Manner family and several of his patrolmen had seen. "I have no idea what it was, but | don't think it was swamp gas. There's something else to it." Hillsdale County Civil Defense Director William Van Horn was openly dissatisfied with Dr. Hynek's explanation. Van Horn and 87 Hillsdale College coeds had spent nealy three hours watching a red and white object, about 20 feet in diameter, from dormitory windows. "| think | will disprove Hynek in a few weeks," Van Horn said. The Lansing, Michigan State Journal observed that "two years ago an investigator checking saucer reports predicted Michigan would have more saucer reports as work at the university progressed."