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"It was somewhere around 9:15 in the evening and I was on patrol around the reservoir. I was in the gray patrol car, which is kind of a big Jeep. And I received a radio call from the Pompton Lakes Police, which is a kind of Central Radio Dispatch Headquarters for several communities in this area. They told me that there was some land of a flying object in the air. They asked me if I would check it out. So I was only about five minutes' drive away from the area where they thought this object was heading. I drove over there and I saw this very bright light as I approached. I would say it sat there in the sky for around two-and-a-half to three minutes when I first saw it. As I got closer, all of a sudden it started to move. I came to a spot in the road where I stopped. This light was real bright and I could see it was as big as acar. Yes, I'd say it was around eight feet in diameter. And then it made all these squared-off moves. It just kept going - to the right, left, up, down and making all these square turns, to the north, to the east ... Seemed like it was putting on a show or something." "Well, if you took a basketball and cut a hole in it and then set a football in this hole-and then left the end of the football sticking out of the basketball - that's about what it looked like. From one position. It all depended on what way it was going. When this thing was going east and west, it would seem to be just a round disc. But then when it headed south that's when I could see this other shape to it. "And this football-shaped dome, or whatever it was, seemed to stay in one spot. When this thing was traveling south, or coming north, from where I was standing, the dome-shape just stayed there on top in one position. I mean, you could see this bright light all around it ... And it seemed like this dome was working on maybe some kind of a bearing. Or the whole thing, the whole object, worked like a bearing - where the outside of the bearing, the bright light, would turn and the inside, the dome, would stay in one place. That's about what it would look like." "Would you say," I asked, "that the whole thing appeared to be maneuvered at random or intelligently?" minutes before Sergeant Bobby Gordon drove up to find him shaken and excited: "How high did it seem to be?" I asked. "Well, I would judge it was about 250 up in the air from me and about 250 feet away from me." "Was there any shape to it at all?" "Oh, I see," I said. "This always remained level?" "The dome? Right! The disc seemed to work around it." "Oh, yes. Very intelligent. Yes." "And you still don't know what it was?" "No. I don't know what it was. The light was so bright, I couldn't tell what was behind it."