Ah. Interesting.
It does raise some problems with the "extra witnesses" you linked to in post #2 of this thread, though.
It should be pointed out right from the start that
no independent witnesses came forward until 3 years after the incident, and then only after it had been widely publicised in the press.
Brian Stevens describes what looked like an orange ball fixed in the sky and reflecting the light of the setting sun.
“I couldn’t take my eyes off it,” said Stevens, who was 13 at the time. “The next day, when it was on the front page of the paper, I felt privileged to have seen it.”
Stevens said when he saw the object, he was walking on Ohio 39 in the Roseland neighborhood and looking toward Westbrook Country Club, which was where the object appeared to be hovering.
Was the sun setting at 11 pm at night, then?
Or did Brian see something long before the incident with helicopter?
Later that night, Glenn Stout was on break from his job at Mansfield Tire and was standing on the back dock with some coworkers when he saw what he describes as “a crazy looking light” moving toward and nearly colliding with a helicopter in the area of Westbrook Country Club.
In case there's any doubt about Brain's timeline, we are told that Glenn saw the UFO "later that night".
I wonder why Glenn was working at Mansfield Tire at 11 pm at night, along with a number of co-workers. It seems a little strange to me that they are all working late at the tire place.
When he saw the news that a UFO had interfered with the flight path of an an Army Reserve helicopter over Mansfield, he was sure he had witnessed the same incident.
And we confirm that Glenn reported his "sighting"
after he saw the news about it.
Earlier in the day, Judith Hamm was outside a home near Pavonia when she saw what looked from afar like a plane flying at an alarming speed toward another plane. The object then veered away and disappeared.
“I almost screamed because I thought they were going to hit,” she said. “It actually was headed right toward the plane like it was deliberate.”
Hamm said she thought the object may have been a military craft, but it moved more quickly than any plane she has seen before or since, and oddly, it seemed to move just as easily backwards as forwards.
So Judith saw something "earlier in the day". Note earlier in the
day. Not "earlier in the
night". So, if she saw something, it is apparently unconnected with the 11 pm helicopter incident - just like Brian's sighting is unconnected.
Les Kiser has no doubts about he saw that day— a UFO.
“I’m a big believer in UFOs now because I know what I saw, and it wasn’t anything military,” Kiser said.
He was 13 years old at the time and was working in the back yard of his Burger Avenue home with his 30-year-old sister when he saw an oval-shaped craft with two red lights. The red lights disappeared, and then a green light appeared and lit up a nearby helicopter.
Kiser estimates the craft appeared to be about the size of a semi-trailer. He recalls worrying the craft would make the helicopter crash.
“My sister said, ‘That’s an Army helicopter, so it’s probably the military. Don’t say anything to anyone about it.’ So I didn’t,” Kiser said. “It was so strong for me that I never lost it in my mind even though I haven’t talked about it in 40 years.”
Was Kiser - a 13 year old kid - really working in the back yard with his sister at 11 pm at night? Does that strike you as a little strange? Like the guys all working away at the tire shop at 11 pm at night?
Also, it is interesting that Kiser describes the "craft" as "oval-shaped", when the pilot of the helicopter on the video in the opening post describes it as "cigar shaped". So who is right and who is wrong?
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None of these "extra witnesses" seem to be reliable.
And we haven't even started on the pilot and crew of the helicopter yet.
