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"At about 10:40 that night we spotted a light behind some hills. We focused our attention on it. That was down in the direction of Raymond Dam (where Chief Casazza, Lieutenant Vestito and Officer Pastor had observed weird lights in the sky). And the light came up over the hills. It was shaped like an ellipse, but was flatter on the bottom and more roundish on the top. It stayed there, I'd say, for about ten seconds - in this one position. It appeared in length to be about three times larger than the full moon. And in height, it was about half the diameter of the moon. Its color, too, was about similar to the moon. In other words, it was giving off some kind of light. But there were no lights on it as such. I mean, it was just white. There was nothing of any other color on it and it wasn't flashing or blinking. "Slowly it started moving towards the left, towards us. That would be a northeasterly heading. We were looking toward the south when we first saw it. All of a sudden it started moving very fast. And it disappeared behind some hills." "Well, it just like disappeared in about a second. It might have been a quarter-of-a-mile, a half-mile away from the hills when it started moving fast. That was it: it just stopped, started moving slowly and He groped for a descriptive phrase. "It was very distinguished. I mean there was no arguing that what I saw wasn't there. We all saw it at the same time. We asked each other what it did, and we all agreed where it went, how it looked, the size of it and the intensity of it. The girls were even strangers, other college students. It's a favorite pastime of college students to visit the reservoir nowadays. We were walking by, saw the girls and just started talking to them." good working knowledge of meteorology. His good-looking relaxed features tightened into a very serious expression. "Well," he told me, "there was a large temperature inversion that night. It was after a high-pressure area had come down about two days before. And we were just about in the situation the Wanaque Reservoir. We were talking about two-girls and we were looking out over the water. I queried young Giacomo: "How fast was it moving, would you say?" then moved very fast." "How bright was it?" "Tt was about the same intensity of light as that of a full moon." "Altogether, how long did you have it in view?" "About 20 seconds." "Did you hear any noise?" "No. No noise at all." "So do you have any idea of what the thing was that you all saw?" John de Giacomo wasn't about to go off the deep end. His interest in science is intense and he has a