Retired Police Officer Bill Fisher - UFO Footage 1967

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Posted by Bill Fisher
It’s still pretty vivid in my mind [...] They were being viewed by a lot of people. There were stories all around. I was just naturally curious. I had my camera in there just in case.

Posted by MiamiValley UFOSociety
This is a direct copy of a 8mm film transferred by myself to a video file. It was in possession of Project Blue Book. I obtained this film and others from an officer assigned to the program. The second half shows a UFO filmed by the witness and Moline Police Officer Bill Fisher.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=irJK9jGan8g

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.

“The Air Force asked, ‘How high up was it?’ Mr. Fisher recalled recently. “‘I don’t know.’ ‘Well, how big do you think it was?’ ‘I think it was as big as a box car.’ [...] a mysterious trio dressed in black confronted him at the police station. [...] Mr. Fisher’s statement to Capt. Kato in 1967 runs to two single-spaced pages and is quite detailed.



The most vivid and startling descriptions are from the Knox County sheriff's deputy. Names are blacked out in the online Air Force reports, but contemporary newspaper reports identified him as F.W. Courson:

The bottom part of this object had a rim around it 5 or 6 feet thick. This rim was spinning at a terrific rate of speed. However, the bottom part of the object appeared to have vents in it, small narrow vents.

... Now, the top of the ship, or this object, as much as I could make out, was kind of a whitish crystalline looking ... as to the height of this object, I would estimate at twenty-five hundred to three thousand feet. ... In referring to the white ray that emitted from the object, it looked more or less to me -- the best way I can describe it, it looked like a sun ray...

Source: http://www.qconline.com/news/local/r...d82704eff.html

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That very same year in England: UFO Police Eyewitnesses 1967

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xzay0t-drY0