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"Oh, I would say that from where I was standing - while I was looking into this light - that it pulled the water up a good two or three feet. The reservoir was low at the time and I could see the water rise plainly. As long as I was looking into this light from the flying object, I was all right. But if I just moved my head away from the light for one minute, I couldn't see a thing. Not a single thing. Because I was blinded." "Were there any other witnesses at the reservoir?" I asked Sergeant Thompson. "Were you the only one who saw this UFO that close up, from among all of the people who saw it in the sky?" "Yes, lam." He paused for a moment. "But a certain lady, Mrs. John Oldman, I think saw it pretty close up, because she was driving along the road just as this flying thing was passing over that same road, descending toward the reservoir. Mrs. Oldman had left her house to go shopping-she lives up around that area of the reservoir - and this thing scared her so badly that she drove right back home before she ever got to the store. She just stepped on the gas and took off. She told her husband about it and her husband came over to Police Headquarters and he told me about her experience. "In fact," said Sergeant Thompson, as an afterthought, "these same two people had seen the flying object one night before - with me." "Well, it was much higher. And it looked just like the way the Pompton Lakes Police described it to me over the radio: a real bright light. But see, it was so high it looked like it was going slow. Yet it was still making these square turns. Even at that altitude." half." "Right. Still making those square turns. In fact, I was in Johnny Oldman's house the second time. And we watched it from there. As it faded over the hills, the mountains-there are some pretty high mountains over there - well, I got in the police car and followed it down through the valley where I could watch it, you know, and still keep it in sight. Kept it in sight quite a long time - about an hour- and-a-half, as I mentioned. That was in March." Surprised, I asked: "You mean, you had seen it previously?" His tone was absolutely matter-of-fact. "Oh, yes. This is the third time that I've seen this thing." "What did it look like the other two times?" "The first month several of us saw it was in January (1966). And then we spotted it again in March. That's when my Chief also saw it." "And for how long did you see it the first and second times?" "Well, the second time we watched it quite awhile. It stayed right there for, I would say, an hour-and-a- "That long? And still making those squared off turns?"