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Led by Chief Greenwell, more than a dozen state, county, and city police officers arrived to investigate and, if need arose, to do battle with the little supermen. On the way to the farm, the officers noticed a "strange shower of meteors that came from the direction of the Sutton farmhouse." One officer testified later that the meteors had made a "swishing sound" as they had passed overhead. The investigators found no trace of a space ship or the little men, but they found "several peculiar signs and indications" that something extremely strange had taken place that evening on the Sutton's farm. Whatever had invaded the Suttons on that Sunday night in August, the bullet holes in the walls bore mute testimony that the farmers had deemed the creatures real enough to shoot at them. 3. - or Are They Really Meteors? On February 9, 1913 several thousand people in Canada were treated to a most unusual celestial phenomenon coming toward them from the northwest - a row of four glowing lights, closely followed by a row of three abreast, and by at least a dozen others arranged in similar formation. The awesome aerial parade continued parallel to the earth for over 2,400 miles. The Canadians were given ample time for detailed observation as it took the glowing streams of lights approximately 3.3 minutes to pass a given point. Professor C. A. Chant of the University of Toronto, editor of the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, later served to collect the multitude of reports that flowed into the Society's offices from both trained scientists and lay observers. Most witnesses of the unique flight stated that the formation had consisted of from fifteen to twenty glowing objects. Astronomers with powerful telescopes reported that each of the "abnormal meteors" were actually clusters of from twenty to forty smaller objects. All observers seemed to agree that the objects were spherical in shape, reddish-gold in color, and were followed by a long tail which measured over 39 miles in length. Everyone testified to the thunder-like roll of sound that accompanied the objects, and slight earth tremors were recorded as the celestial parade passed overhead.