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around 6:15-in order to get to work by 6:00!" He laughed at his own joke. "I drove to Paterson by way of the Hamburg Turnpike here. Hamburg Turnpike runs more or less in a north-south direction. I was proceeding south toward Paterson on the turnpike - and I would say I was about two hundred yards north of an intersection with a road called Colfax Road when I crested a hill. And that's when I saw what I saw. "The object that I observed was in the south-southeast quadrant of the sky. It was above the horizon maybe 35 to 50 degrees. Pretty high. And it was traveling from the south-southeast toward the northwest, or maybe even toward the north-northwest. At that point of the road there's a traffic semaphore light. I caught the red light and stopped. And the thing (the UFO) took my eye because it was so brilliant. It was more brilliant than any of the heavenly objects in the sky." Again I interrupted: "How much brighter was this object than, say, the planet Venus - which gets very bright?" "Well," he said, "Venus was in the southwest at this time, almost behind a hill And I couldn't really compare them, the object and the planet. But I would say, from having observed Venus before and since, that this UFO may have been ten times more brilliant" exclaimed. "Yep," was his laconic reply. Then he elaborated. "The light I saw was a piercing light I described this to myself, the Air Force and various people who questioned me about it as being a brilliant blue-white- type light, similar to a strobe light - such as the high-intensity lighting on airplanes and in electronic flashguns used by photographers. But it didn't flash. It was steady and very brilliant, as I said. That's what caught my attention. I crested the hill - and wham! right into the windshield it came. I couldn't avoid seeing it. "Since I was stopped by the red light, I had time to observe it. I had it in sight for maybe two minutes, maybe three minutes. After the traffic light changed to green I pulled my car over to the side of the road to watch it further. It continued from the south-southeast and then it abruptly stopped and made a direct transverse movement to the west. It was a very quick movement, right to the west. Then it stopped again and continued on what could be its original course, with the move counted in." "No. A 90-degree turn, I would say. It came up and made a right-angle turn straight across and then made another right-angle turn and continued onward." l interrupted him: "It was a clear night, in other words?" "A very clear night," he answered. "I could easily see the stars and planets." He said this casually, but as an amateur astronomer I was incredulous. "Ten times more brilliant?" I "You mean, it made almost a 180-degree turn?" I asked. "These were square turns, in other words?" I said.