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(Rev. 9-7-56) Tracked 27 Minutes on Radar , c . — Parsons U.S. Cutter in Gulf of Mexico Reports oe Trotter Nease Sighting Mysterious ‘Object’ in Sky | ne hae Holloman Associated) Press Faveling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite shape,| A brilliant mystery object miles per hour, International resembling the planet Venus.” was reported sighted ester) News Seryice reported, How-/Shockley said there were no day in southern skies by alever, at one point, the object/vapor trails or any ot! in-) Guard cutter, even as appeared to remain stationary dications as to the object’s| Air Force special investigat-/and hover above the w be-‘method of propulsion, One; ors checked a flurry of eat-\fore it resumed: its erratic estimate of its\ height placed) ero i eel eee it at 2000 feet. ae ual cutter Se- i by Naa pe x [Phe eutter's captain, Cmdr.) [Glenn Northeutt, Mice aboue200 wiles soutn ©: Jt Waring, said the object Okla, rancher and member of Of Louisiana, radioed that an/ifst appeared on. thel ship's|the University dee etre | object resembling “a brilliant|2444" Seveen a8 a “good, Btrong ee nae ie anarere planet with 4 high rete of|{}5» at5:10 4. m. and whs lost others had watched ‘a brik speed” was seen for about] if’, northerly direction at liant, mysterious’ light that three seconds at 5:21 a. m.ja¢ m. looked like the planet Venus ST : {In this time, the skipper magnified many, many times,” The Sebago’s message said) said the object, which cane as ‘The object, he said, was visible the object was tracked on the @jgse as two miles to fie ves- More than half an hour.) vessel's radar screen for 27) foi, was actually seen py four Sightings of strange obje minutes and that, during that Inembers of the crew] . Owe, have been reported from wide- period, the object filtted on|fns, Wayne D. Shocklby, de-ly scattered sections of the and off the sereen several) keribed it as a “bright point/United States, most of them) mes. Crewmen caught sight near secret military installa, it it ouly for a few seconds, tions if the SE ie [The Sebago radioed Ne The ‘oree said the radal rleans Coast Guard ‘led. network of the Air Defens| uiarters that the object was See MYSTERY, A6, Col, 3 Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Journial== = American N. Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader ____ — eee eee Date Ye. —____—— “eG: 198