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36 Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : FLAP IN MICHIGAN continued While the controversy was at its peak in Michigan, this photo was released showing what was purported to be a UFO that flew over Hillsdale County in June of 1965. IA-RDP81R00560R00010001 0002-9 Dr. Hynek; asked at news conference to comment on photo of this “flying saucer,” said tt looked like a “chicken feeder.” Photo was represented as UFO seen over California. ) the question and finally declined to answer whether the object might have been a “test vehicle.” But he was sure neither Mannor nor any .of the other witnesses had been taken in by Michigan University’s big radio telescope in the area, an object with which all of them were too familiar to have mistaken for a flying saucer. He was sure there would be some natural explanation “for all of this,” but as he proceeded to puzzle it out, there were others in the state who were not so certain. Frederick E. Davis of the State Police Commission opened an investigation and announced: “I used to dis- count these reports, too, but now I’m not so sure.” And House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford said he would ask for a Congressional investigation. That such an inves- tigation had not been conducted before was attributed to a reluctance on the part of Congress to go ahead for fear it might encourage the idea that sightings are something more than natural or man-made objects. On the other hand, to refuse is to fan the rather widely held belief that the government knows what the objects are, but is covering up. While controversy, skepticism and investigation still waged around Dexter, the skies were preparing another show, this time for 87 coeds in Hillsdale College, several miles to the south and west of Dexter. Here, on the night of March 22, the girls saw a glowing object fly past a dormitory window and hover over a swamp. The reaction of the original sighters brought other dor- mitory residents and the assistant dean of women, a calm- ly efficient executive with seven years experience as a news reporter. She not only joined the girls in their watch, but suggested they take notes, which they did over a four hour period of vigilance. The glowing, football shaped object was said to have wobbled, wavered and glowed and once it flew right at the window, then stopped suddenly. Several of the girls made sketches of what they were seeing and in addition to the four score coeds and their Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9