In the lonely hills northwest of Ann Arbor, Frank Manner stepped from his farmhouse one night last week to quiet his yelping dogs. Off beyond the cornfield, he spied a glowing, "quilted" objectwhich he later sketched in detail bobbing over a swamp. After a futile attempt to stalk it, Manner called police, who also saw the apparition.
Gasped Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey: "If there is such a thing as a flying saucer, this must be it."
By next night, Manner's farm looked like a fairground. Saucer-seekers bearing telephoto lenses trooped to the swamp through driving rain. From the University of...
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