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feet. to his door. The light remained gleaming over the right rear fender of the car for some time, until it suddenly swerved directly at the car and only stopped when it appeared to be a few hundred feet away. Then, just as suddenly, it swerved upward and perched momentarily over the top of an electronic relay tower. But it did not stay stationary for long. As it left its post and darted across the road, it ended up about two hundred yards in front of the car, where it bobbed like a frantic rabbit in a greyhound race. Shortly after it had assumed this position, Ronnie turned the 1956 Ford off the paving and onto the gravel road that led to his date's house. The light stayed right with them for the full mile and half to her house. When Ronnie stopped the car, the light stopped also and stayed motionless in the southeastern sky. The couple watched it from the Bruce home for about 15 minutes. As the car pulled out of the Bruce driveway, the light began to move again, until it had resumed the now familiar position in front of him. The car retraced its path for about a mile along the gravel road, but no matter how the young driver zigged or zagged, he could not shake the persistent light. As the Ford turned east on another gravel road, a mile from the Bruce farm, the light began a variety of new antics. Ronnie Austin did not want to spend any more time in the company of the weird light than he had to and was moving at a high rate of speed when the light changed color. Its original dazzling white color had changed to a duller orange. After making the corner, the light darted straight for the speeding automobile, moving at a tremendous speed and did not alter its course until it was within 100 From this distance, the youth estimated the size of the light to be about the size of an automobile. Then the ball swerved away from its collision course and passed over the top of the car. At the same time, the car's radio erupted in a burst of static and the motor sputtered and almost died before the light moved back over a distant barn. As the light had approached, it had changed from a dull to a brilliant orange, but in the position that it had resumed in front of the car, it returned to the original dull orange color. The car hurtled down the road toward the Austin farm, and terror seized the youth in the summer darkness. For almost three miles it stayed on his right rear fender while he was traveling north over the gravel. When he turned west, the light cut across the road behind him and pursued him literally right up