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This US Air Force memorandum for the record comes from Lt. Col. Dominic A. Bartol, Chief of the Plans and Special Events Division, Command Directorate of Information, and is dated 3 September. It records a telephone report of a UFO from Paul Marston, a freelance photographer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Marston described at least four reports from the Exeter area that night. Among the witnesses were Norman J. Muscarello and police officers Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt, who saw a silent object with flashing red lights. The reports were passed to Pease AFB.
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REPLY TO
ATTN OF: ADCIO-C
SUBJECT: Memorandum for the Record
## TO: ADCIO ADOIN
1. Confirming telecon, 1145 a.m., 3 Sep, from ADCIO-C to ADOIN, following is essence of a UFOB report received via telecon 1130 a.m., 3 Sep, from Mr. Paul Marston, free lance photographer, 60 Market Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
Mr. Marston reported that...
"During the period shortly after midnight to about 0300 this morning, at least four reports of an unidentified object came to my attention. All of them were from the Exeter, New Hampshire area.
a. At about 1230 a.m., an unidentified woman reported to Exeter police she was "chased" by an unidentified object.
b. At about 0200 a.m., Exeter, New Hampshire police officer Eugene Bertrand reportedly witnessed a bright hovering object, from a $ \frac{1}{4} $ mile distance, that hovered very close above a house. Object displayed flashing red lights of high intensity in a diagonal plane.
c. At about 0200 a.m., Norman J. Muscarello, age 18, an Exeter, N. H., high school student, resident at $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ Front Street, Exeter, N. H., reportedly was hitch hiking to Exeter on Route 101 when the UFOB came close enough to him (Muscarello) so as for Muscarello to dodge and fall to the ground so as not to be struck. Object reportedly featured flashing and "zig-zagging" red lights without noise.
d. At about 0230 or 0300, Exeter policemen David Hunt and Eugene Bertrand (see paragraph lb, above), while responding to a local UFOB sighting call, came upon "the scene" and as they arrived the UFOB also arrived. Both patrolmen were said to have simultaneously observed the UFOB for about 15 to 20 seconds. UFOB was noiseless, of bright intensity, and featured blinking red lights in the diagonal plane. It moved away at extremely fast speed." Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.