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"On the evening we saw this strange object we were sitting watching television when the manager of this trailer court knocked on the door and asked us to please come out and see if we could identify the strange thing they were watching in the sky. So we seized our binoculars and rushed out to see a staggering sight. It was an object a bit redder than Mars (orange-red) and was describing huge circles in the air. Then it would come to a sudden stop and hover. Through the binoculars it closely resembled a planet, but it had something connected with it a planet does not have. The best way I can describe it is to say it looked like a 4th of July sparkler connected to the side of the object and appeared to go in and out. Then the red-orange glow went out and the sparkler part kept right on making dashes at terrific speeds. It went way down into Mexico and then circled some more and then returned and from where we were viewing, it went out over North Island and hovered some more. Kindly remember that seven people (three with binoculars) were viewing this object for a long time. Then it vanished. And did not reappear. "There was no noise connected with it. And there was not a plane of any description in the air that night. (It was a Sunday evening.) That is very unusual here, especially on clear night. "T felt I should report this sighting to someone so I called up Mr. Johnson, who is head of Project Moonwatch here, and described the sighting to him. He was interested and gave me his residence phone number so we could call him if we ever saw it again and perhaps manage to triangulate it. (Note: Project Moonwatch was a nationwide group of satellite observers organized by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to help determine the precise orbits of man-made satellites.) "It seems to me it should be reported to the Air Force. If you agree with me, then you can insist that they send someone out here to take testimony from all or any of us who saw it. My husband would be the best one to interrogate. He and Mr. Cameron (manager of this trailer court) never took their binoculars off it. And my husband has a theory about the sparkle bar and rocketry that he could tell them about. "We could not resolve the white light that seemed to go in and out from the red-orange light. It seemed to be very, very far away, especially when directly overhead. The definition of the orange-red light was much smaller than we expected it to be. The sparkling white light seemed to move in and out a great distance, possibly as much as a hundred diameters. It left the impression of a very bright light fastened on a long pole that could only be seen on one side and every time the pole would go around you could see the bright white light go in and out on one side of the main body only. The whole thing maneuvered so much in circles and going to and from us that we must have viewed it We have watched all the sputniks and Echo. "None of the usual Air Force explanations could explain this sighting. We have not seen it again, but we look every night.