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COMMENT: The apparently metallic skin of the UFO was smooth. A medium-blue light shone continuously through the one window in the front section. Through this window were visible the head and shoulders of one man, sitting motionless, facing the forward edge of the UFO. SHAPE: Like a football with a dome on top and two whip antennas extending from bottom, the UFO also had three lights - one in the center and one at each end. COLOR: Reports were contradictory: United Press International quoted Observer-Farmer Frank Mannor as saying the UFO was "grayish yellow" and Life Magazine quoted him as describing it a "grayish or bluish brown." the boat." ALTITUDE: Hovered about 10 feet above a field, then rose vertically through broken clouds until it was out of sight. SPEED: Not given. TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: March 20, 1966, at 8 P.M. local time/in a swamp 12 miles northwest of Ann Arbor, Michigan. DURATION: Not given. NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: Two, plus 50 others who later saw colored lights - phenomena that resembled phosphorescent marsh gas. TYPE OF OBSERVER: Farmer and his son. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One. OBSERVER RELIABILITY: Integrity unquestioned; observational acuteness unknown. DIMENSIONS: About the length of an average automobile. SOUND: None. ALTITUDE: Hovering eight feet off the swamp surface in mist: as Life quoted Mr. Mannor, it was: "Like a man in a boat on a misty lake in the morning - you can see the man but can't quite make out SPEED: Not given. TACTICS: Hovered with its lights on, turned "blood red," then lights went out and it disappeared.