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The coincidences between the Hart sighting and this one are too close to be casually dismissed. The object appeared over the same area - San Diego and North Island - and generally performed the same erratic maneuvers. Except for the orange-red ball in front, this UFO looked exactly like the one observed by seven persons at Chula Vista. And that one occasionally "turned off" its orange-red glow. Finally, the UFO observed by the Navy fliers followed the same pattern of movement from east to west as had the UFO seen at Chula Vista. The Project Blue Book Record Card concludes that: "Object has many characteristics of a refracted astronomical object, but the movement from east to west and the high elevation angle tends to rule out this possibility. Witnesses (at Chula Vista) indicated they were watching object through binoculars; therefore a balloon or aircraft should have been recognized, and 30 minutes is a long time for an aircraft to be in sight if flying in any one direction for any length of time. This case is classed as an Another puzzler in the same category was reported by a farmer, Mr. Monroe Arnold, in the area of LaCamp, La., on the night of April '18, 1960, at nine o'clock. Mr. Arnold was the only person who saw the UFO but many others in the neighborhood heard it. According to Mr. Arnold, what he saw was a round disc or sphere that was fiery red and appeared to be the size of a nickel held at arm's length. The object approached him from a height of about 10° above the horizon and was seen for approximately three seconds. Its heading was 15° toward the east from due South. As it approached the farmer from that distance, it grew in size until it seemed to be about eight feet thick, eight feet wide and 12 feet long. It either landed or plowed into the ground some 300 yards from where Mr. Arnold was standing. There was a loud explosion heard for several miles. An "exhaust trail" or something flame-like about a foot long streamed from the object's rear. As it bounced on the ground, three or four additional explosions were heard. After bouncing in an easterly direction for roughly 1000 feet, it rose toward the sky, turned west and disappeared immediately. Inspection of the impact area after the UFO vanished disclosed that the ground was scarred and scraped at nine different points, where something like paint and metal were found in the furrows, and that a tree and the grass were scorched but not burned. Later analysis of the paint and metallic samples carefully removed from the ground showed that they were not from armament rockets or JATO units. The samples were analyzed by X-ray spectography and compared with other samples scraped from 2.75-inch folding fin armament rockets and JATO bottles. The conclusions reached by Sam Tour & Company, Inc., a New York City scientific laboratory, follows: "It must be concluded from these studies that the dark material rubbed into the surface of the ground apparently did not come from any source coated from paint represented by #1, #2, or #3 (samples from the rockets and JATO unit). Although this material (from the UFO) contained a major amount of say it looked like a steady stream of electric sparks. Something like a sparkler on the 4th of July." "Unidentified." zinc, there was no evidence of chromium as there was in Sample #3."