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where we were ready to get a reverse-flow, so it was absolutely still that night. The temperatures during the day were up to 60 degrees and had dropped to about the high 30s that night. I mean, it was at the point where smoke was coming off the water of the reservoir. It was a fast inversion of temperature. And the UFO we saw could have been the result of some kind of an ionized jet, a pocket or whatnot that had formed in the atmosphere over the reservoir in just the right position to catch the beam from an automobile headlight on the other side of the hill. In other words, a headlight beam might have hit something in the atmosphere that either focused it or reflected it back toward us." "You mean," I said, "that the atmosphere would be acting like a lens or a mirror under those temperature inversion conditions?" "Well, the thing that made me doubt that was its color. Looking at the moon, I saw it was the color of the moon. But I couldn't really say what it was - or what it might be." "Oh, I've heard about them. Most probably a lot of those UFO stories have been exaggerated. I know that my own story has been exaggerated about a hundred times over." "No, I don't." Icontinued: "Sergeant Thompson, who seems to me to be a very straight type, told me that on October 11th-just four days before your own sighting - he saw an object which was about as big as an automobile and was only about 250 feet in altitude and about the same distance away from him. It was so brilliant that it blinded him temporarily." Young Giacomo made a quick mental calculation. "Well, I estimate the distance of the thing we saw as being maybe a little less than a half-mile away from us. And considering its light-intensity at that distance, it would have been a pretty strong light if it had been much closer to us - say as close as Thompson's object was to him." "Then, considering that factor, do you still feel that what you saw was the result of a temperature inversion?" I asked. "That's right," he told me. "This is one possible explanation of what we saw." "Then you don't believe that what you saw was a spacecraft or some other extraterrestrial object?" "Have you been keeping up with all of these other UFO sightings around the Wanaque area?" I asked. "Who exaggerated it?" "Well, at school there's a big thing going around that I saw a flying saucer from about 20 feet away." Lasked: "Do you know Sergeant Ben Thompson of the Wanaque Police Force?"