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on AO Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 m “My God, I see the damn thing myself.” ‘This was the incredulous explosion of an Exeter, N.H., patrolman who had been sent out to investigate a red, pulsating “Thing” that a young man claimed to have seen a few miles outside of town on Route 150. The story-of what the youth saw, what others attested to, how the sighting affected the com- munity and the attendant sightings in the area forms the basis for John G. Fuller’s Incident at Exeter (Putnam). Mr. Fuller accepted no hearsay evidence in compiling the material for his book. He interviewed everyone who had = SAS NR . oe woe. e a, ° we va ee wy ett oe, * spiliiees ‘ rs wr a Nie been connected with the sightings, both believers and non- believers; examined the evidence himself, sought the advice of authorities and developed some theories of his own; one of which, the power-line theory, proved to have earlier ini- tiators, and many supporters. As Mr. Fuller was drawing to the close of his first-hand investigation of the incident he encountered more and more people who located the cite of the UFOs they had seen as “Just over the high-power lines,” or “coming in above the transmission poles.” The most vivid account was * “deep red cigar-shaped object from which came small disc that . sped toward ground, stopped over power lines, extended pipelike object to lines and remained there several seconds before withdrawing object and speeding back to cigar-shaped UFO. &% > ee ¢ », i a eee . hay t gs - ® é Sy ® a , wes oes ; we PORN perma genet ge Illustration by Norman Duke for APRO.