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COMMENT: The lights were pulsating, but in two different reports (Life and UPD) their color was contradicted by Mr. Mannor. In the wire-service report he was quoted as describing the two end lights as being blue and white. In the magazine report he said these same lights were green and white. The large central light was not identified by color, although according to Mr. Manner, "each of them (the lights) looked like they had a little halo around it." Surface of the UFO was described as "quilted" or pitted like coral rock." SHAPE: First looked like a puff of smoke, then like a kite in a high wind and finally, in the observers' own words, "like a pickle with a flat bottom." TACTICS: "Very odd motions," according to one observer; the object was at first quite "diaphanous" in appearance and then went "from almost total diaphany (sic!) to complete solidity," in the words of the male observer, the extreme" change in appearance was a pulsating situation: the object changed back and forth from something barely sensed to something solid at the rate of "about three flashes per second"; finally, the object rose, "obviously tilted away from us with a flash from the sun on an edge, became a hair line and disappeared, apparently straight away from us into the stratus clouds beyond," TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: October 2, 1958, at 5:29 P.M. EDT/Delaware Water Gap, not far from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. DURATION: Total of 30 seconds (15 seconds from inside a car, 15 seconds outside). NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: Two. TYPE OF OBSERVER: Businessman and his wife. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One. OBSERVER RELIABILITY: Sincere. DIMENSIONS: "It appeared enormous," said one observer. COLOR: Dull gray. SOUND: None. ALTITUDE: From 10° to seven degrees above the horizon. SPEED: Not given. recounted the male observer. COMMENT: Although the object was overall a dull gray in color, when it "flashed" from a hazy