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TACTICS: (See ALTITUDE). Also, the observer thinking the object was an experimental aircraft, walked toward it. As he approached, some unknown force struck him to the ground. When he regained consciousness, the object had disappeared, and he had a wound that required medical attention. COMMENT: Similar UFO was sighted approximately two months later, just past midnight local time on May 24th, 1965, by three persons who were guests at the Retreat Hotel in the Eton Range 40-odd miles from Mackay, Australia. One of the observers was an experienced airline pilot, J.W. Tilse, who worked for Trans- Australian Airlines. The other two included an engineer and a World War II veteran. Duration of the sighting was more than 30 minutes. The UFO was motionless for a half-hour and then began to rise slowly. It took off horizontally with rapid acceleration. Pilot Tilse described the UFO as follows: "It had a bank of spotlights, twenty or thirty of them, below a circular platform. It was solid - metallic-looking - and was about thirty feet or more in diameter. ... As it came up over the treetops we could see beneath it in the glare of its lights three massive legs - which appeared to be tripod-type landing gear. Each leg had a light on it. ..." Except for the diameter and landing gear, this UFO closely follows the description given of the one sighted in the Florida Everglades. TYPE OF OBSERVER: Crew members of a freight train owned by the Monon Railroad; they were respectively engineer, fireman, brakeman, conductor and flagman. ALTITUDE: Either settling onto swampland or hovering just above it. SPEED: Not given. TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: October 3, 1858, at 3:20 A.M. local time/just outside the railroad crossroad settlement of Wasco, Indiana. DURATION: Not given precisely, but it was an extended period. NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: Five. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: Four. OBSERVER RELIABILITY: Not given, but probably good.