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Paul Richwlne, 16, who lives In Woodland Beach, 3 miles north of Monroe,
produced a piece of film with a blob on It that he says his camera "saw" when
he Pointed It at a "flying saucer" over his home Friday night.
Detroit News photographers say the blob could be due to a wrinkle in the film.
But Paul and his mother, Mrs. Mariannice Richwine, insist that they saw the
strange glowing objects cavorting in the sky and that the dark area on the
picture represents one of them.
The object In the picture doesn't seem to have much material substance.
Neither Paul nor his mother can account for the fact that the thing they saw
was bright and shiny with flashing colored lights while the camera recorded a
dark smear.
Paul said his Argus F-100 was on time exposure at f. 2.8 and was loaded with
fast film when he took the picture at-about 11 :30 p.m., Friday.
The News photographers conceded that the darkness in the picture "might" be
the Indication of something moving quite swiftly on a time exposure, or the blob
could be a Water spot on the negative or a wrinkle In the film.
Mrs. Richwine said the obJect's appearance was preceded by four glowing
shapes about 10:30 p.m., Friday. She saw them from her front window, she said.
(From the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press, Mar. 22, 1966]
STATE FLYING OBJIwr REPORTS BRING PLEA FOR FEDERAL SIFT
ANN ARBoR.-A Michigan Congressman planned Tuesday to ask the Defense
Department to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects sighted near Ann
Arbor.
U.S. Representative Weston Vivian, Democrat, of Michigan, left for Washing-
ton, D.C., Monday after conferring with Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey, of Washte-
naw County. Harvey said Vivian also planned to talk with the U.S. Air Force.
Three times within a week, residents of the nearby commniity ofDexter have
reported sighting objects flying in the night sky.
"I didn't believe those reports," said Harvey. "But with so many trained
police personnel and reliable citizens having seen thM, I must believe some-
thing Is in the Washtenaw County skies."
And Tuesday, the Hillsdale Coulnty civil defense director and 87 college coeds
said they watched an eerie, hovering flying object settle Irma swampy hollow near
a school dormitory Monday night.
William VanHorn, 41, the county civil defense director for 10 years, said he
watched the unidentified object throughL binoculars for 3 hours.
The Air Force announced it was calling in Dr. H. Allen Hynek, chairman of
the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Eivanston, Ill., and scien-
tific consultant to the Air Force's UFO study program, to Investigate the rash
of sightings.
Hynek will work from Selfridge Air Force Base near Mount Clements, the Air
Force said.
In Hillsdale, VanHorn said he joined the 87 Hilldale College coeds and their
housemother to watch the object. He said it emitted wavering orange, red *
(From the New York Times, Mar. 22, 1966J
FORTY IN MIOHIOAN SAY A MYSTERIOUS CRAFT HOVERED IN SWAMP
ANN ARBOR, MIoH., March 21.-At least 40 persons, Including 12 policemen,
said today that they saw a strange flying object guarded by four sister ships
land in a swamp near here Sunday night.
Descripti6ns of the unidentified flying objects tallied closely. A patrolman,
Robert Hunawill, said he and other residents of the area saw similar craft before
dawn last Monday and Wednesday.
In Washington, the Air Force said It knew nothing of the reports. The Air
Force's Michigan headquarters in Battle Creek would not comment.
Two persons who slogged through the 300-acre swamp today and looked for
traces of the craft found nothing but marsh grass, quicksand, and muck..