REL 2-4-1, UFOs (1965): Air Defense Command memo on Exeter, N.H. reports
- Date
- 1965-09-08
- Location
- Exeter, New Hampshire area (document text)
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Release
- National Archives (NARA)
- Type
- image
Summary
A two-page Air Defense Command memorandum for the record of 8 Sep 65, from Ent Air Force Base, gives the "essence of a UFOB report" received by telephone on 3 September from a freelance photographer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It lists at least four reports from the Exeter area that night, including an Exeter police officer seeing a bright hovering object with "flashing red lights of high intensity in a diagonal plane". Two patrolmen "were said to have simultaneously observed the UFOB for about 15 to 20 seconds."
Note
Second-hand summary of reports; private witnesses not named.
Pages in this file (2)
Each scanned page from this catalog record, in file order, with its own summary and link to the page on the National Archives catalog.
REL 2-4-1, UFOs (1965): Air Defense Command memo on Exeter, N.H. reports
Page 1 of the 8 Sep 65 Air Defense Command memorandum for the record. It relays a telephoned report from a freelance photographer of at least four sightings in the Exeter, New Hampshire area, including the observations of two Exeter police officers. The officers are said to have watched the object "for about 15 to 20 seconds" before "It moved away at extremely fast speed."
REL 2-4-1, UFOs (1965): Air Defense Command memo on Exeter, N.H. reports
Page 2 of the memorandum states that the photographer had reported the items to the OSI at Pease AFB, N.H., and that the Hampton, New Hampshire Police Department had separately reported similar data to Pease AFB. It is signed by Lieutenant Colonel Dominic A. Bartol, Chief, Plans & Special Events Division.