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"Oh, I would say it was in the westerly ... the northwesterly part of the sky. Or it was almost in the northwest, somewhere like that if my memory serves me right." The reason that I was asking such questions of the Mayor was because his description of the object - except for the lack of twinkling - almost identically matched the appearance of the exceptionally bright star Sirius, which is especially prominent in the January evening and night skies. I persisted: "Are you sure that it wasn't like a star twinkling from one color to another? Because you know that the star Sirius changes colors as you described the changing colors of this object." color." On the basis of his uncertainty about the twinkling effect, I went to the trouble of checking an astronomical almanac for the position of Sirius on the night of January 11, 1966, between the hours of 6:15 and 9:15 EST. For a moment I thought I had the UFO identified: at the time the" Mayor and his party had observed the object, around 7:00 P.M., Sirius was very low on the horizon. But it was the east-southeast horizon - measuring the azimuth for Wanaque, N.J. - and not the northwest horizon as recalled by the Mayor. Furthermore, Sirius was just beginning to rise, and the way the Mayor pictured the disappearance of the UFO was as if that object had simply settled behind the horizon. He told me: "Actually we were up on top of that reservoir and I guess the temperature must have been about 10 or 20 degrees at that height. The wind was blowing maybe 40, 50 miles an hour. So we turned the police car around as a shield against the wind. By the time we looked at the sky again, the object as such was gone. Whether or not it disappeared beyond the horizon, I don't know. I don't know even if it was something normal or man- made or whatever it was. It was just getting too cold to stay there and find out. And let me say this: it didn't look like anything spectacular to us. It just looked like something was there. What it was actually" - he shrugged - "who knows?" "Would you say," I asked, "that it was at least spectacular enough to be noticed if you just happened to look up at the sky?" "No. I would say not. Not to me, anyway. I wouldn't have thought a thing of it. Except that it was pointed out to me by Sergeant Joe Cisco of the Wanaque Borough Police - and except that calls were coming in to our car radio from members of the various police departments in the area saying that an and then back to white." "How did the colors change? Did they flicker, or twinkle?" "No, I would say not. They just changed." "In terms of direction, what position was it in the sky?" "Well, I'm not sure about the twinkling," was the way he put it, "but the object did seem to change object was being sighted."