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Mississippi. ALTITUDE: When first sighted, the object was about 45° above the horizon; it disappeared at a height somewhere between 30° and 45°. TACTICS: The UFO came in overhead from the south-west and went northeast, passing underneath the clouds, 'which were at about 1,200 feet; it stayed at the same level, never varying its speed; once it varied its heading to due north, faded into a cloud and then reappeared; finally it faded into the clouds COMMENT: The four lights protruded from the bottom of the UFO and were evenly spaced. They were, said the observer: "Almost the same intensity as the satellite, kind of bright but not very bright at all." Of course, the object could not have been a satellite, since it was flying under a low cloud-bank and there were four lights instead of one. All were white lights of exactly the same intensity and they did not twinkle. No aircraft were in the area at the time. This was verified by the observer, who The object was moving crossway to the wind. The observer, who was quite familiar with aircraft since he worked on an Air Force base, was shaken up. He said that he had never before seen anything that resembled the UFO. He was also not aware that a half-hour earlier two Naval air cadets at Ellyson Naval Air Station had sighted and reported a strange UFO. But this was a "ball of flame about 16 feet long, from which two objects appeared to emerge." The cadets made their report to nearby Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida. TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: April 4, 1965 at 5:05 A.M. local time/Kessler Air Force Base, DURATION: 15-plus seconds. NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: One. TYPE OF OBSERVER: Weather observer (Detachment 22, 24th Weather Squadron). NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One. OBSERVER RELIABILITY: Good to excellent. SHAPE: Like "a large football with lights, according to the observer. DIMENSIONS: About 40 feet long. COLOR: Black against clouds. SOUND: Not given. SPEED: Not estimated, but fast. at the northeast. phoned the Federal Aviation Agency.