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the strict sense of that definition, but all are unquestionably unknowns in the sense that there is nothing suspicious about them that would suggest they could be explained if only more information had been supplied by their observers. All of this type of UFOs appear in the "Complete Directory of UFOs" beginning elsewhere in this book. Here I would like to cover the most unusual sightings from 1960 to the present writing. Space limitations prohibit my going back any farther into past history. In fact, the same limitations have caused me to eliminate two spectacular cases that occurred in September 1965 and March 1966. These were the sightings of strange red lights at Exeter, N.H., and the famous "marsh-gas" incident near Ann Arbor, Mich. Although they are listed in the UFO Directory, they were purposely not included here because of the widespread national publicity they received in the press and big- circulation magazines - Look, Life and the Reader's Digest. The Exeter case, in fact, has also appeared in book form. Thus S&M assumes that any of its readers interested in UFO phenomena will already But the cases we are about to present in this article are equally spectacular. A few of them are even more spectacular. As a point of format, we'll start with the most recent case first and work backward to 1960. On March 24, 1966, Dr. H. Allen Hynek, Chairman of the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, received a letter from a schoolteacher in Salisbury, N.C. She and her husband had observed an exceedingly strange UFO, and she had gone to considerable trouble to write a detailed The report was attached to the letter, which said, in part: "It is immaterial to me as to whether this report will be considered valid or not; I have done what I feel I should be done by reporting it (the UFO). However, if you care to use any of the information in the report you may do so, but I cannot give you permission to use our names." Their names, of course, were in the Project Bluebook files since Dr. Hynek is Scientific Consultant on UFOs to the Air Force. Nevertheless, S&M respects her request for anonymity. Here's her report - "On the night of February 2, 1966, I saw an unidentified flying object. I turned out the lights and went to bed shortly after 11:15 P.M. A couple of minutes after retiring, I heard a dog barking loudly behind our house. Upon opening the curtain to look out, I saw a strange object hovering over the trees in the yard of a house behind us. "The object is difficult to describe, for it was in a tremendous state of activity, while hovering in the same place. It never remained absolutely still, but kept moving gently back and forth, yet hovering in the same spot. It seemed to be of a silver-colored material, but there were small objects, resembling balls, in constant motion around it, circling around it at a tremendous speed, as if in orbit around the object. have considerable information about these two cases. report of what they saw. without her name: