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past one's ear. Elmore. Eimore, a town with a population of 1300, is located about twenty miles southwest of Toledo. Nothing like, the bright light and accompanying aura had ever visited the little town before. Still puzzling over what he had observed in the sky, the Chief continued his nightly duties. He checked the Harris-Elmore School, which is part of his scheduled patrol, at 11:30 P.M. As he was pulling out of the area, the object appeared in the sky again. This time Crawford's view was partially obstructed by trees, but the object itself appeared to be nearer to the ground. The estimated height of his first sighting was about 2,000 feet; this time the Chief guessed it to be at 1,000 feet. Perhaps because it was closer, the object appeared to be considerably larger and brighter than when he had seen it the first time. Once again he shined his spot at the thing, but this time it moved rapidly out of view in a northwesterly direction. Its movement was accompanied by a soft swishing sound, like a fast moving object rushing Chief Crawford was convinced that there was more to the light than an optical illusion. He switched on his radio and contacted his deputy, Carl Soenichsoen, who was cruising in another squad car. He had considered calling the deputy when he had first sighted the object, but he knew that his voice would have been perfectly audible to anybody with a shortwave radio tuned to the police band. Not wanting to cause a general panic, he told his deputy to meet him in front of a local food market on the outskirts of Soenichsoen was closer to the food market than Crawford had been and beat his chief there by several minutes. When the chiefs car pulled up, the deputy got out of his car and ran over to greet him. "Is that what you're talking about," he asked excitedly, pointing at the bright object. It appeared as it had when Crawford had first seen it. When the deputy had first arrived, the object had been glowing steadily, but by the time Crawford pulled up, it had begun blinking at what the men estimated to be one-second intervals. Just as before, it was impossible to make out any distinct outline, only a fuzzy ball of light and the large aura that surrounded it. Then, as the two men watched, the object moved from its stationary position, which appeared to be about a mile away over the Ohio turnpike, and headed directly for them. Chief Crawford radioed the state highway patrol while his deputy continued to watch the object. The highway patrol had a plane, and Crawford reasoned that they would be more able to do something about the strange light in the sky than he would. As it approached them, it grew in brightness and size and changed from a nondescript glow to the form of a wedge or V, flying through the sky.