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"Yes. Square turns. Completely square turns - which was another thing that brought my attention to it. What I didn't realize then was that the course this thing was taking, from where I was located, was directly toward the Wanaque Reservoir. I later plotted its course on a Geodetic Survey map and wound up with almost the exact position over the Wanaque Reservoir where the police officers saw the saucer, or whatever it was they saw. "Anyway, I couldn't explain that transverse movement. I couldn't explain the brilliance of the thing. So I felt that when I got to work, I would keep quiet about it. Because I thought that maybe the guys on the paper would think I was flipping my lid. "After I reached the paper, things began to develop this way: We started getting telephone calls, not from the cranks - but from the police. We got a call from the Pompton Lakes Police Headquarters, which acts as a sort of monitoring network for several communities in this part of Passaic County, New Jersey. And they said that Wanaque was having a series of UFO sightings. Their timing was about 6:40, which was within the realm of possibility from the time that I saw this thing. The time that I crested that hill would have been between 6:20 and 6:25. "At any rate, after the police called was the point that I decided I was going to really nail this down. So initiated some telephone calls. I first called McGuire Air Force Base." "Anyway, I spoke with the commander and I asked him the simple question: 'Do you have any aircraft flying over Passaic County, New Jersey, on training missions, on any kind of missions? Do you have any helicopters flying in this area?’ my reason for asking. Then he said: Til connect you with someone else.' And he connected me with a sergeant in Public Relations (Public Information) at McGuire, who recorded my name and so forth. The sergeant then suggested that I phone Stewart Air Force Base at Newburgh, New York. "Well, I phoned Stewart and got another sergeant, this one with an unpronounceable name - Gousolwouskii, or something like that. At any rate, I told him what I had seen and he asked me some questions and then he said: 'We have no helicopters based here. We don't have any aircraft in that area. I don't know what you've seen.’ And then he forwarded me to another officer, who was a major." "Was this at Base Operations?" I asked. "Yes. This was Base Operations - at Stewart Air Force Base. The Base Operations Officer, the major, asked me what I thought this object that I had seen might be. And I said: 'I don't know what the object might be. But if you fellows are trying out some kind of an experimental helicopter with a big strobe light on it - it could be that. And this is all I could say that it could ever be - a helicopter with a big strobe searchlight on it.’ "Who did you speak with there?" "It was a Senior Colonel, a Colonel McCabe, I believe. He was in charge of what they call the 'New York Air Defense Command.' "And his answer was: 'No. We have no aircraft operational at this time.' And he questioned me about "And he said: "We have no idea what it was you saw. We have no airplanes or other aircraft