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The object emitted a great deal of light, which changed colors about five times as quickly as an ordinary light can be switched on and off. The predominant colors that I could distinguish were red, green and white, but it was never just one single color; it was a mixture of these colors constantly flashing. The colors seemed to be coming from the objects whirling around the central, silver-colored object. The main object seemed to be of a diamond shape, with the ball-shaped objects whirling in an orbit around it. The balls were not all whirling in the same path; they each had a different path from the others. I would estimate that there were approximately a dozen of these round objects. There also seemed to be little explosions shooting out from the (main) object. These also produced a great deal of light and color. I was fascinated by the tremendous amount of activity going on around the object. ... The object hovered in the same position for approximately three or four minutes. Then suddenly it moved in the direction away from me (to the Northeast). The speed with which it moved was so rapid that I could not begin to estimate it. Nor could I estimate the size of the object, since I do not know how far up in the sky it was, although the area over which it hovered is only about 300 feet from our bedroom window. The object began to get farther and farther away. About this time (11:50 P.M.), my husband came home from work. He located the binoculars and we used them to watch the object, which had, by this time, gradually swerved to the East, making a large, sweeping curve. It was too late for my husband to see the shape of the object, but he did see the explosions and the changes in lights and colors. We watched the object until 1 A.M. "I do not know what the object was, but I hereby swear that I saw the object as described, and I have described ft to the best of my ability." The letter was signed by both the schoolteacher and her husband, who wrote "Confirmed" before his name. Total time of the sighting had been almost an hour and 45 minutes. Another peculiar sighting occurred at Urbana, Ohio, on August 30, 1965. Since basic details of it are given in Part I of the UFO Directory that appears in this issue, an interesting human-interest sidelight here would be the sheriffs interrogation of the observers. Roger D. Sailings, Sheriff of Champaign County, was the interrogator. Excerpts from the type transcript of his conversation follow: Q: What is your name, address, age? A: Michael Allen Lily, 602 Boyce Street, Urbana. I am 16 years old. Q: Was there anybody with you when you saw this object? A: Yes. Nelson Smith, Route 3, Urbana, and Thomas Nastoff, 234 Lafayette Avenue, Urbana. Q: Where were you when you spotted this object? A: We were out on that road near the Fair Grounds in a buddy's car. We were going down towards (Route) 54.