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One possible explanation for the identity of that mysterious investigator who held forth in the auditorium of a Wanaque high school was suggested innocently in a recent letter to me from Roger L. Gordon, a Wanaque-area native who is now studying medicine at a university in Massachusetts. The letter was inspired by young Gordon having heard me on Radio Station WMEX in Boston during an interview program about UFOs. He wrote: "Later in the program you received a call from a young man who had seen photos taken from an I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year) ship off the coast of Brazil in 1958. You stated that you had not seen these pictures. Last January 28 (1966), a meeting was held at Lakeland Regional High School in Wanaque, after the first rash of sightings appeared. Mr. Donald Berliner, a NICAP representative, was present and showed the audience this photograph, which I believe was taken in daylight." So Newspaper Editor Howard Ball could have been right when he told me: "I hope they (the Wanaque police officers) aren't mixing up the Air Force with NICAP." The only hitch here is that the NICAP investigators are not apt to deride a person who has sighted a UFO. They are much more apt to be on his side of the fence. (In fact, Roger Gordon's letter to me continued thus: "At the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. Berliner stated that Wanaque's UFOs were (1) real, not imagined; (2) artificial, not natural; and (3) under intelligent control.") Ican offer no other explanation of this puzzle - unless an actual impostor came on the scene and gathered the police officers together in that same auditorium. Yet if this was so, what could his motive have been? For he apparently interviewed no one else but the police officers. observer who was actually interviewed by an Air Force investigator. He is Howard L. Ball, Jr., of Pompton Lakes, N.J., formerly Suburban Editor of the Paterson Morning News and presently County Bureau Chief of the Paterson Morning Call. I know that Editor Ball was interviewed, not only because the Air Force told me so but also because he told me. Howard Ball is as straightforward a man as you'll ever want to meet. In addition, he's intelligent, perceptive and absolutely objective - three qualities Ball, a round-faced but pleasantly featured, sensitive-appearing and husky man who seems to be in his late thirties, has been a newspaper editor since 1951. Before that, for five years, he was a news reporter for Radio Station WKMI in Kalamazoo, Mich., a ‘reporter on the Kalamazoo Gazette for a brief period and a correspondent for both the Associated Press and the United Press-International in Michigan. He was once an Information Officer for the 107th Fighter-Bomber Wing of the Air National Guard at Kellog Air Force Base, Battle Creek, Mich. College-educated at Western Michigan University, he holds a B.A. Degree in the Liberal Arts and teaches English in his spare time at the Wanaque Lakeland Regional High School. He is married and has three children, two girls and a boy. There is no question but that Howard Ball is a responsible citizen. When he sighted his first (and only) UFO on January 11, 1966, in the Wanaque area, he was late for work. His shift on the Paterson Morning News was from six o'clock in the evening to two o'clock in the morning. He might never have seen the UFO if he had not been late in getting started to work. Here's how he described the UFO sighting to me: "On the night in question, I was late. I left the house Within this confusing morass of contradictions, one man alone stands out as an individual UFO usually not found all at once in the average newspaperman.