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"Now when my wife first saw this object, it was hovering - it was still. I didn't see it hover. When I came out of the house it was moving. "So I went back inside the house and phoned Headquarters. I didn't report the object. I just called them and asked them if they would send a patrol car over. Before I reported it, I wanted someone else to see it beside myself, my wife and Mrs. Varga. "One of the police officers drove over and just as he got to our house, the thing disappeared from our view. It didn't go out like a light was shut off or anything like that. It just went beyond the horizon, beyond the mountains, in the direction of the Wanaque Reservoir, about four or five miles to our north. lL asked the officer to call the Reservoir Police Headquarters by radio and see if any of their officers had a car out on patrol. I wanted to find out if they could possibly see this object, whatever it was." It should be mentioned here that the Wanaque Reservoir is a 90-odd-billion-gallon stretch of water lying among some of the wildest and loneliest woodlands in New Jersey. Through that mountainous area prowl bobcats, foxes and wild dogs. As many as 100 venomous copperhead snakes have been killed in one day by a single Reservoir Police Officer. The Reservoir Administration maintains its own autonomous police force to patrol the vast water-storage lands. In fact, the area is so wild that a police officer (who doesn't want to be named) told me: "There's only one thing that would make me go into those woods, no matter how many guns I carried, and that's to find a lost child. Otherwise I'd stay close (An interesting aside: the natives pronounce Wanaque as "Wahn-a-cue." Those who were not born in Wanaque Borough, or who live in nearby communities, pronounce the name as "Wahn-a-kee." No matter how you may pronounce it, Wanaque, N.J., has been the scene of many UFO sightings. Among the responsible persons there who have reported UFOs have been the Borough Mayor, the Mother Superior of Mount Calvary Convent, several members of the Pompton Lakes Police Force, many members of the Reservoir Police Force (including its Chief), Borough Councilmen, a newspaper editor, an electrical engineering student and a mathematics teacher. What they saw and how they feel about the UFO situation was told in June 1967 issue of S6-M. But none of their sightings, although these were also unique, can compare in sheer strangeness with the sighting on the night of October 11, 1966.) Sergeant Bobby Gordon of the Pompton Lakes Police Force had no idea of what he was starting when he asked his fellow officer in the patrol car to radio the Reservoir Police about that UFO. His story, "So he (the fellow police officer) radioed up and got in touch with Sergeant Ben Thompson, who was then on patrol around the reservoir. And Sergeant Thompson immediately said: "Yes, I see something. It's very bright.’ We were looking in a northernly direction and at this time we saw three or four flashes - extremely bright flashes." the sky. There was no actual beam from it. to the roads - in a car." tape-recorded by me, continues: "From this object?" I asked Gordon.