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kindergarten. I have a daughter, Rene, in the other room. She's six months old. We have a '62 red Ford convertible with a white top. "I was driving home late from a visit with a friend in North Lansing. I was going to be late making John’ s dinner. Dana was in n the back seat, right directly behind me. - He v was running his mouth amilea o'clock. I was traveling on Route 34 going south, at a speed of about 60 miles an hour - or faster. This is the Auburn-Ithaca Road, where the speed-limit is 50. "It was a dreary night that night, with slight flurries of snow blowing away. There was no traffic at all. I didn't meet any car. Nobody passed me. And it was a dark night. The clouds were real black, although the sky itself was kind of dark gray, so the clouds stood out against it. The wind was blowing and the clouds were moving - from east to west. The wind was so strong that when I had to make a turn, the car would kind of shift position. The wind was awful. It was coming from the left-hand side and it whistled through the spaces between the convertible top and the body. The roof was flapping 1 had on the high beams of my headlights. It was a straightaway part of the highway. There are no streetlights in that area. It's .kind of a barren stretch - fields and hills on both sides. And there are some homes, but they're back into the woods - a good distance away. The fields are wide-open spaces between the road and the woods. "Just when I was midway between North Lansing, where my friend lives, and South Lansing - I was closer to Ithaca than I was to Auburn, in other words - I noticed this brilliant red glow, like, on the inside of my car. As though it were coming from the rear. Ah, ah! I thought. It's a police car. I've been speeding. I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw - nothing. "There was nothing but this red light covering everything. And I thought: what is it? And I just couldn't figure it out. And I was shaking like a leaf, you know, trying to figure a way out of this. I thought it was the cops, but I kept going, just waiting for the sound of their sirens to tell me to pull over off the road. "I had just come up around a bend in the highway, and, as I said, was now on this straightaway. Well, anyway, I kept going and just a little bit further up the road I was suddenly panicked. This object, whatever it was, suddenly appeared at my left. It came into sight over a telephone pole. And I glanced up - I glanced out and saw brilliant red and green lights underneath an object that was airborne. It must have been 55 to 60 feet in diameter. It was round and had a little dome-like thing on the top. And it tilted once. I saw it once, tilted. You couldn't look right out and stare at it for long, because the Rita Malley was almost in tears as she described the object. There was fear in her voice as she continued: "It was, I realized, awfully quiet in the back seat and I looked back to see what Dana was doing. He was sitting straight up. His eyes were just bugging right out of his head. And I yelled at him. I just minute. You know how kids do that at that age? It was on December 12th, in the evening, about seven against the bars. lights were so bright from it."