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report of the U.S. Air Force Investigator stated that no aircraft could be responsible for this sighting. It is therefore classed as "a one-witness Unknown." Editor's Note: In the following eight reports, no rough sketches were included by the observer, and since the description of the shape was generally vague, no attempt has been made to illustrate the UFOs reportedly sighted. SHAPE: One observer described the object as a kind of barrel-shape, pointed at one end and squared- off at the other, with "metal" bands showing; the other observer saw the object as being shaped "like a DIMENSIONS: There was some discrepancy between the two observers: one guessed the length to be 20 feet, the other, to be 20 inches; diameter was six or seven feet or inches, depending on the observer, but the discrepancy could have been the result of one observer not knowing the difference between an indication of feet as (') or inches as (") in his or her notation on the Technical Information Sheet. TACTICS: Settled behind the trees and disappeared; the object appeared to be about a quarter to a half- mile away over a valley alongside a wooded area. COMMENT: The UFO was viewed from the back porch of a farmhouse. It could not have been any known astronomical phenomena, since it was viewed in daylight just after high noon. It certainly TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: March 26 or 27 (observers do not remember exact day), 1959, at 12:45 P.M. EST/rural area near Corsica, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. DURATION: Three minutes. NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: Two. TYPE OF OBSERVER: A retired 83-year-old man and his daughter. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One. OBSERVER RELIABILITY: Unknown. fish or an airplane without wings." COLOR: Bright blue. SOUND: None. ALTITUDE: Above the tree tops, about 40 or 50 feet off the ground. SPEED: Motionless.