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ee ee a Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 Color: White light, like a star, turning red after about 10 seconds. Sound: None. Altitude: Unknown. Speed: Angular rate 2-4 degrees per second. Tactics: The observers were viewing the stars through a telescope when all of a sudden the object popped into view like a lightning bug. It turned or had a slight zig-zag motion and disappeared after 16217 seconds. Comment: The case is carried as unidentified, the Air Force says, since it is not presently explainable in terms of a meteor or any other plausible explanation. Time/place of sighting: September 3, 1965, about 11 p.m. three miles south of Damon, Texas. Duration: Several minutes. Number of observers: Two. Type of observers: Deputy sheriffs. Number of objects: One. Observer reliability: Unknown, probably good. Shape: Triangular shaped object with a bright purple light on left end and smaller, less bright blue light on right end. Dimensions: About 200 feet wide and 40-50 feet thick in the middle, tapering off toward both ends. Color: Dark.gray. Altitude: About 100 feet. Speed: Rapid. Sound: None. Tactics: Object was first spotted on the horizon, as a bright purple light about five or six miles away. A blue light appeared out of the purple light. The observers tried to get closer to the lights, then slowed almost to a stop _ to make another observation through binoculars. The lights then started coming toward the witness at rapid speed. The object came up to a pasture next to the highway about 150 feet away. Bright light illuminated the ground, highway, and interior of the patro] car and one observer felt heat. As observers headed back toward Damon the object appeared to remain in the same position for about ten seconds then moved off in direction originally seen at high speed. Arriving at origina] position, it went straight up in the.air and disappeared. It was spotted again later by same witnesses at the same place. They left the scene because they figured the object would start moving toward them again. Comment: The Air Force says at time of sighting Antares was setting and could have been continued on next page Interest in UFOs prompted several persons in Tallahassee, F'la., to phone the weather bureau when this mystery , blotch appeared for two nights, in 1965. It hung over city for me half-an-hour each time, then faded away. Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9