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for around 15 minutes, then they left for Zimmerman Road, roughly three miles to the northwest. They arrived there at 11:45 P.M. Enroute they were able to observe "a faint rotating beacon inside of the glowing object." When they parked on Zimmerman Road, they could still see the glow in the trees southeast of their position. Somewhere around five minutes later, one red object about the size of a grapefruit came out of the woods moving very smoothly about two feet above the ground. Its speed was about the same as that of a bicycle being pedaled by an average boy or man. Suddenly, a white object appeared about three feet away from the red one. The red and white objects merged into a single object and split again into two. After a few seconds the red object disappeared. Abruptly, four objects appeared behind the parked automobile some three miles away. Two of them were red and two were white, one of each was moving along each side of the road toward the back of the automobile. These objects were at a height above the road that was level with the height of the four persons watching as they sat in the car. The observers were immediately horrified and, starting the car, they headed swiftly for the town of Beulah. Enroute they were able to observe the same rotating beacon that was described earlier. The time was now 12:20 A.M. At Beulah they urged Terry's parents to drive back with them and watch the extremely unusual phenomena. Mr. and Mis. Gregory agreed. They arrived on Zimmerman Road about 1:00 A.M. The red and white objects had vanished, but the beacon was still present inside the bluish white object After taking Mr. and Mrs. Gregory and Nannette home, the three young men returned once more to the scene at about 2:00 A.M. The UFO was nowhere in sight. There was no sound of any type at any time associated with the strange objects. According to the Air Force investigator who questioned the observers: "Witnesses appeared to be sincere in their observation. The Coast Guard at Traverse City, Michigan, stated that there was no air-sea rescue mission in the area at time of UFO sighting." So the objects could not have been flares or searchlights. They remain: "Unidentified" in the Blue Book files. Twelve days later, on July 20, 1961, an oddly comparable UFO was sighted from the air in daylight by an airline captain and his first officer at Beaumont, Texas. Captain A. V. Beatherd and First Officer Cazzell were aboard Trans Texas Airlines Flight 110 in the landing pattern at Jefferson County Airport near Port Arthur when they sighted the UFO, or UFOs, since there were two in trail formation. The DC-3 airplane (Number N33654) was flying at an altitude of 5,500 feet on a heading of 65° at a speed of 160 knots out of Houston when the first UFO was observed hovering straight ahead of the aircraft at an altitude between 6000 and 7000 feet. The object appeared to be hovering over Baytown and looked like an extremely bright light as Trans Texas Flight 110 took off from Houston. The bright light later turned out to be two bright lights that were following an erratic flight path: hovering, dashing and changing altitudes at high speed from 10,000 down to 6000 feet. They finally disappeared on a heading between 65° and 70° at 10,000 feet, approximately over the high bridge between Orange behind the trees.