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Gordon told me that he did not believe this was so. As of this writing, there is no answer to the mystery of the sudden heavy traffic in helicopters and high-performance aircraft. He paused for a moment, then said: "Well, I'll tell you one thing. I could not find my patrol car after this thing disappeared." Again with strong emphasis: "I was totally blinded from that light. I had to stand there in the road quite a while before I could get my vision back to where I could find the car!" "Oh, it lit up the reservoir like you were two feet from the water pointing a very bright spotlight. You could see the whole water. I could see the treetops on both sides of the mountain - which would be "And as it went over the trees - which would be on the mountains to the west - it would sort of pull the tops of the trees together. In other words, it had a suction effect. It didn't blow the trees apart. It pulled them together. And it also pulled the water - upward." Thompson. If my incredulity was too obvious, it didn't seem to affect Thompson's earnest manner. He continued as if there had been no pause for a question. "And as this thing faded away, from an area like, say, to the west of the one mountain, as it went over the reservoir toward the east, I could see the water come up toward this flying object," he said matter-of-factly. "Then as the object moved away from that area, the water would settle back down to its natural level." "No. The water was pulled up. It was sucked upward. But not off its bed. The flying object would just raise a whole big area of water - I don't know - for maybe two-hundred and fifty feet. As far as I could see. The object would just pull at the water and I could plainly see the water rising. And when this thing flew away from the area, the water would just settle right down again." Now he became somewhat excited. "And that object just pulled the trees right together. The tops of the trees came right together. Each tree just mingled in with the other one. They came together just as smoothly as could be. It wasn't a violent motion. It didn't break the trees or anything like that. It would be just like somebody took a big rope and circled around four or five hundred trees and then ran it through a chain-block and started pulling those trees together. And they'd come together nice and slow. Well, that's the way those trees acted when the flying object passed over them." I next asked Sergeant Thompson: "How long did you observe the UFO?" "I would say about three minutes," he answered. "What kind of reflection did it cast on the reservoir?" anywhere from a half a mile to a mile of that area. This sounded incredible to me. "Can you describe that effect in more detail?" I asked Sergeant "You mean," I again interrupted him, "that the water would move like a wave, or a quick tide?" "How high would you estimate that it pulled up the water?"