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He shrugged. "You see, this thing was so bright that it lit up the whole area. I would say, for a half a mile wide." Again, here is a sharp contradiction with what Sergeant Bobby Gordon observed about the UFO. Gordon saw neither haze nor mist and, in fact, described the object as being neatly bright" like a hole punched in the sky." However, Sergeant Gordon did not see the object at close-up range. over the place after this thing had disappeared. But nobody knows where they came from. There were seven helicopters and, I would say, ten or twelve jets." "Right on the scene!" he stated with emphasis. "It was only 15 minutes from the time we had spotted the thing. And the Air Force claims that they didn't get any report on it. And that they didn't send any aircraft into our area. But I don't know. They seem to be holding something out on us. I just don't know. Now I've never seen seven helicopters at one time in this area in all my life - and I've lived here for 40 years." Sergeant Thompson shrugged again. "They were very fast ail-craft - and they kept circling the whole area. Stewart Air Force Base, which i is s the closest to this area - it's sin New York State at Newburgh - This was a puzzling situation, to say the least. If the Air Force had sent aircraft over the area within 15 minutes of the UFO sighting how had they learned about the UFO so swiftly? Maybe they were monitoring the Pompton Lakes Police Radio Central signals? On the other hand, Sergeant Bobby "Was the haze the same color as the light itself?" "Was the sky clear?” I asked Sergeant Thompson. "It was a perfectly clear night, yes." "Did you hear any sounds at all?" "No sound at all," he answered. Then he added emphatically: "I never heard a sound from it!" "So it couldn't have possibly been some kind of an aircraft?" His tone was disdainful. "No. It was no aircraft. I've seen a lot of aircraft. In fact, there were aircraft all "Oh? These were U.S. Air Force aircraft?" "T don't know," he answered. "You don't know where they originated? They just came on the scene?" "Were the airplanes jet-fighter types?" claims that they didn't send anybody down here. No planes or anybody. Nothing."