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smoke-like shape to a solid shape, the solid form went absolutely black momentarily. The sighting was made at dusk. TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: October 1959 (observer forgot exact date) at 9:15 P.M. local time/Telephone Ridge, 40 miles east of Enterprise, Oregon. wife. TACTICS: The light appeared in the sky about 10 miles away from the observers and moved toward them over an open meadow; it stopped approximately two or three miles away from them, having taken 15 minutes to reach this point, and remained stationary for a half-hour, after which it shot straight up into the sky, passing through a broken cloud layer; as it passed through the layer, it illuminated the bottom of the clouds with "a large reflection flare" and vanished. COMMENT: Observers were on a camping trip in the mountains to hunt wild game and had pitched their tents on a plateau about 5000 feet above sea level. They tried to observe the UFO more closely through their telescopic rifle sights, but could determine no shape of any kind surrounding the light. As the department store manager later stated: "At no time did we ever see anything but the bright light We could not see anything around the edge nor a shape, nor anything that the light came from." Since they were isolated high in a wild mountain area, the light could hardly have been a reflection from any civilized source, such as a huge spotlight in the distance. The observed UFO was also pulsing slightly. DURATION: About 45 minutes. NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: Four. TYPE OF OBSERVER: Manager of a department store (college-educated), his wife, a rancher and his NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One. OBSERVER RELIABILITY: Good, in terms of details; no good, in terms of dates. SHAPE: A large shapeless light. DIMENSIONS: About the size of an automobile headlight. COLOR: Bright and clean as a carbon-arc light, according to one observer. SOUND: None. ALTITUDE: At first very slow, then terrific.