Unidentified flying objects: hearing before the Committee on Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session, April 5, 1966 ...

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to west flight pattern in a straight line with an elevation of about 100 above the
tree-line. Both officers had read a little an UFO's. Neither would venture an
opinion as to what the object was but Officer Bertrand stated that it was definitely
not an airplane or helicopter and that in his opinion that it was an intelligently
constructed and operated vehicle. No sound was heard by the witnesses, even at
close range but apparently the animals in the nearby barn of Carl Dining could
hear or sense something that frightened them as during sighting No. 2 and No. 3
they whinnied and kicked their stalls. The dog which belonged to people acrow
the road was barking furiously. No interference was noticed on the police radi•
nor were the lights and ignition of the cruiser affected. Neither officer would
estimate the object's speed but stated it was very slow. No scorched marks or
indentations were found in the field. Both officers agreed that their signed state-
ments and names could be used by NICAP in connection with the report.
SIGHTING ACCOUNT NO. 4
At 3:30 a.m. e.d.t., Officer Hunt sighted what appeared to be the same object
hovering in the distance while at the Route 85-100 bypass in Exeter. He radioed
Officer Bertrand who told him it was probably a star. Shortly after this he looked
for it again but it had disappeared. Since there was little detail in this sighting
I did not bother to probe for details.
SIGHTING ACCOUNT NO. 5
To add to the excitement the police and others told me that an unidentified
hysterical man tried to call the police during these early morning hours to re-
port a UFO. He dialed the operator from a pay station in Hampton, N.H., and
excitedly asked the operator to connect him with the police as he had been chased
by a "flying saucer." Before the call could be put through to the police, the tele-
phone connection went dead. Neither the man or the particular Hampton pay
station could be traced.
MILITARY INVESTIGATION
Officer Bertrand informed me that soon after they made their report of sight-
ing No. 3 to Desk Officer Towland they notified Pease AFB, Portsmouth, N.H.,
of the sighting by phone. Later Pease AFB phoned back and arranged for
the police officers to be interviewed. At around 9 a.m. that same morning,
a USAF major and lieutenant in uniforms arrived, questioned them and drove
both Bertrand and Hunt out to the Carl Dining 'field where they had sighted
the UFO. They asked more questions and returned with the police officers
to the station. The USAF officers asked the police to try to keep the sighting
from the press so as to avoid alarming the local people. The police told the
USAF officers that it was too late for this as several reporters already had
the story: (One had driven from Manchester on a motorcycle complete with
black jacket, helmet, and goggles. I heard privately that he gave the police
quite a start when he came into the station looking like a man from outer
space.)
Bertrand told me that most of the questions asked were the same as I had
asked. The USAF team were particularly interested in the size and shape
of the object. One question that stuck in Bertrand's mind was that they
wanted to know if the chickens on the Carl Russell residence next to the field
were awakened and alarmed during the sighting. (Apparently they were not
disturbed as they were not heard during the sighting although they may have
and just were not heard as the chicken house is probably 300-400 yards, at
leagt from where Musearello and Bertrand were standing in the field.)
Three interesting items told to the police were that (1) that a USAF check
had revealed no aircraft in the area during the time sighting No. 3 occurred;
(2) that Pease AFB had been receiving other UFO reports in the New Hamp-
shire area almost nightly during the previous week: (3) they mentioned a
sighting which took place in late July concerning an automobile coming upon
a UFO hovering over the road in front of them. I have the details and hope
to look into it.
After returning Officers Bertrand and Hunt to headquarters, both the major
and lieutenant returned to the sighting area and questioned residents living
near the field. Mrs. Muscarello told me that two USAF officers had questioned
her son at length and that a U.S. Navy officer also came to the house and asked
several questions about the sighting.