By Dennis Moran
www.qconline.com
3-15-15
Bill Fisher still vividly remembers the strange, bright, silvery object that appeared to be hovering over the Mississippi River on the afternoon of March 9, 1967.
Mr. Fisher, then a Moline police officer, had just parked his three-wheel patrol motorcycle on 16th Avenue across from Sacred Heart School, where his son William Jr. was a student. Others saw the object, too, including neighbors, several students and a couple of nuns. Mr. Fisher retrieved an 8mm movie camera from his police trike and got some footage. It had moved away by then, and what’s caught on film is a little indistinct.
But those two minutes of footage helped make Mr. Fisher a star witness in a U.S. Air Force investigation of several UFO sightings reported from Moline to Galesburg over a few days in March 1967. Two investigating USAF captains arrived the very next day. . . .
Continue Reading . . .
See Also:
Moline Patrolman's UFO Film Spurs Air Force Investigation | UFO CHRONICLE | 3-11-1967
Moline Policeman Spots Two UFOs; Makes 'Color Motion Pictures of The Objects' | UFO CHRONICLE | 3-10-1967
Moline Patrolman's Film is 'Not of a Conventional Craft; UFOs Could Be Extraterrestrial,' says Professor | UFO CHRONICLE | 2-5-1970
REPORT YOUR UFO EXPERIENCE
 |
No comments :
Post a Comment
Dear Contributor,
Your comments are greatly appreciated, and coveted; however, blatant mis-use of this site's bandwidth will not be tolerated (e.g., SPAM etc).
Additionally, healthy debate is invited; however, ad hominem and or vitriolic attacks will not be published, nor will "anonymous" criticisms. Please keep your arguments "to the issues" and present them with civility and proper decorum. -FW