March 6-7, 1967 — Benton Harbor, MI — Hissing, Pulsating Object

[jeffknox]

March 6-7, 1967 — Benton Harbor, MI
12:01 a.m. In Benton Harbor, Michigan, Jerome Wolanin [Donald Jerome according to newsaper], assistant news director of a radio station, and his wife see an oval-shaped object with red, green, and yellow lights around the bottom rim, which pulsates red. It flies level from east to west and is joined by a second object from the west that hovers for 30 seconds then disappears. The objects make a hissing sound. [Eberhart]

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Sources:
“UFO over the county; Swish, swish…crunch, crunch,” Niles (Mich.) Daily Star, March 7, 1967, p. 2;

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“Deputy too sees UFO,” Niles (Mich.) Daily Star, March 8, 1967, p. 2;

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“He Didn’t See Any Swamp Gas,” Benton Harbor (Mich.) Herald-Palladium, March 8, 1967, p. 41;

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Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1742, p. 322;