Date:
March 14, 1966
Location: Dexter-Hillsdale, Michigan, United States
Washtenaw
County sheriffs and police in neighboring jurisdictions
reported disc-shaped objects moving at fantastic speeds
and making sharp turns, diving and climbing, and hovering.
At one point, four UFOs in straight-line formation were
observed. Selfridge AFB confirmed tracking UFOs over Lake
Erie at 4:56 a.m. Their stories were backed up by more
than 100 witnesses.
Witnesses
put together this composite drawing.
Left
photo: Air Force UFO expert Dr. J. Allen Hynek, left,
and Dexter Police Chief Robert R.
Taylor go over a map showing the sites of UFO sightings
in the area. - Right photo: Deputy
Sheriff Buford Bushroe, who 'lost it in the Trees.'
Source:
FUFOR (Fund for UFO Research)
Sheriffs
Watch High-Performance Discs, Also Tracked on Radar
March
14-20, 1966: Southeastern Michigan
From
about 3:50 a.m. on March 14 and for 2½ hours thereafter,
Washtenaw County sheriffs and police in neighboring jurisdictions
reported disc-shaped objects moving at fantastic speeds
and making sharp turns, diving and climbing, and hovering.
At one point, four UFOs in straight-line formation were
observed. Selfridge AFB confirmed tracking UFOs over Lake
Erie at 4:56 a.m. Following is the log of "Complaint
No. 00967" signed by Cpl. Broderick and Deputy
Patterson of the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department:
"3:50
a.m. Received calls from Deputies Bushroe and Foster,
car 19, stating that they saw some suspicious objects
in the sky, disc, star-like colors, red and green, moving
very fast, making sharp turns, having left to right movements,
going in a Northwest direction.
4:04
a.m. Livingston County [sheriff's department] called and
stated that they also saw the objects, and were sending
car to the location.
4:05
a.m. Ypsilanti Police Dept. also called stated that the
object was seen at the location of US-12 and I-94 [intersection
of a U.S. and an Interstate highway].
4:10.
a.m. Monroe County [sheriff's department] called and stated
that they also saw the objects.
4:20
a.m. Car 19 stated that they just saw four more in the
same location moving at a high rate of speed.
4:30
a.m. Colonel Miller [county civil defense director] was
called; he stated just to keep an eye on the objects that
he did not know what to do, and also check with Willow
Run Airport.
4:54
a.m. Car 19 called and stated that two more were spotted
coming from the Southeast, over Monroe County. Also that
they were side by side.
4:56
a.m. Monroe County [sheriff's department] stated that
they just spotted the object, and also that they are having
calls from citizens. Called Selfridge Air Base and they
stated that they also had some objects [presumably on
radar] over Lake Erie and were unable to get any ID from
the objects. The Air Base called Detroit Operations and
were to call this Dept. back as to the disposition.
5:30
a.m. Dep. Patterson and I [Cpl. Broderick] looked out
of the office and saw a bright light that appeared to
be over the Ypsilanti area. It looked like a star but
was moving from North to East.
6:15
a.m. As of this time we have had no confirmation from
the Air Base."
Washtenaw
County deputies B. Bushroe and J. Foster formally stated:
"This is the strangest thing that [we] have ever
witnessed. We would have not believed this story if we
hadn't seen it with our own eyes. These objects could
move at fantastic speeds, and make very sharp turns, dive
and climb, and hover with great maneuverability. We have
no idea what these objects were, or where they could have
come from. At 4:20 a.m. there were four of these objects
flying in a line formation, in a north westerly direction,
at 5:30 these objects went out of view, and were not seen
again."
Deputy
Bushroe told the press: "It would swing back and
forth like a pendulum, then shoot upward at tremendous
speed, hover and then come down just as fast." Dexter
police and Livingston County sheriffs, contacted by Bushroe
and Foster, "reported that they saw the same objects
engaging in the same maneuvers."
March
17, 1966, Milan, Michigan. 4:25 a.m. Sgt. Nuel Schneider
and Deputy David Fitzpatrick saw top-shaped objects making
sharp maneuvers. They alternately hovered, rose and fell
quickly, darted around at jet-like speed, their light
dimming and brightening periodically. In a report to NICAP,
the officers stated that two objects were operating together,
circling and flying in formation, while a third object
hovered at lower altitude.
March
20, 1966, Dexter, Michigan. About 8:30 p.m. Frank Mannor
and family, and dozens of other witnesses, reported that
a domed oval object with "quilted" or "waffled"
surface and lights in the center and on each end had landed
in a swampy field. Deputies David Fitzpatrick and Stanley
McFadden parked car #34 adjacent to the area and began
a search with Frank Mannor.
"While
in the woods area," their report states, "a
brilliant light was observed from the far edge of the
woods, and upon [our] approaching, the light dimmed in
brilliance....The brilliant light [then] again appeared,
and then disappeared. A continued search of the area was
conducted, through swamp and high grass, with negative
results. Upon returning to the patrol vehicle, the undersigned
officers were informed that one of the objects had been
hovering directly over the area where our flashlight beams
had been seen, and then [it] departed in a west direction
of flight, at high rate of speed."
As
he and other officers were rushing to the scene, Officer
Robert Hartwell of the Dexter Police Department saw a
luminous object buzz his car. Robert Taylor, Dexter Police
Chief, said he watched an object in the field from Frank
Mannor's home on a knoll overlooking the area. It appeared
as a pulsating red, glowing object. Through binoculars,
he saw "a light on each end of the thing."
Source:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case778.htm