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TACTICS: First noticed as a single object, large and round as a basketball; 45 minutes later it split into four objects each round and small as a baseball; the four objects or colored lights, stayed in close formation as they settled down low behind the treetops and disappeared; their course was varied. COMMENT: No known aircraft were operating in the area at the time of the sighting and the movement of the UFOs was too slow to be anything conventionally known as aircraft. If the objects were actually the running lights of a helicopter, the ‘copter would have had to be hovering with a slow drift over a period of two hours, which is unlikely. California. DURATION: Object was observed intermittently four times during an hour and 10 minutes; each sighting lasted from one to two seconds. pod in front. sighting. ALTITUDE: Appeared to be very high. SPEED: Very slow. TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: September 10, 1960, between 9:50 and 11:00 P.M. PDT/Ridgecrest, NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: Four. TYPE OF OBSERVER: A man, his wife and two children aged 12 and 14 years. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One. OBSERVER RELIABILITY: Not given. SHAPE: The man saw the UFO as boomerang-shaped; his wife and children saw it as a disc with a DIMENSIONS: Two to three times the size of a Piper Cub airplane. COLOR: Luminous light gray. SOUND: Whirring or swishing. ALTITUDE: Just under 6000 feet when it disappeared; much lower during first three sightings. SPEED: Must have been fast because the UFO stayed in view for only one or two seconds per TACTICS: On two observations the object was heading from north to south; on one observation it