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Flying Saucer Ran Our Car Off the Road in 100-m.p.h. Chase, Say Military Policemen
Two badly shaken military policemen say a "saucer-shaped flying object" dived at their patrol car and ran it off the road in a 100-mile-an-hour nighttime chase across a deserted U.S. Air Force base.
The weird incident took place at Hunter Air Force Base near Savannah, Ga., during the same 48-hour period in which a wave of UFOs was reported over the Alabama-Georgia border 300 miles away.
"I thought it was going to hit us," MP Randy Shade, 23, said of the UFO, "or at least smash the blue police light on top of our car."
"I kept my foot on the gas - we were going over 100 - and concentrated on keeping the car on the road. But I could hardly see through the windshield because of the red and white flashes of the saucer's lights just a few feet above us."
Said his MP partner, Burt Burns, 22: "I was terrified when that saucer chased us. I was crouched under the dashboard just waiting for it to hit our rooflights. The saucer itself wasn't lit but we could see its outline clearly in the glow from the flashing, pulsing lights underneath it."
"It couldn't have been more than a couple of feet above us. I reckon the saucer's size at 50 to 75 feet across."
For nearly a mile, the patrol car dashed across the outer taxiway of Hunter Air Force Base. The UFO so unnerved Shade, he skidded off the roadway at a right-angle turn and stopped on the grass.
"The UFO then went back up to tree-top level and skimmed off into the distance," Shade later reported.
The incident occurred early on September 8 while the two Army MPs were on a routine security patrol at Hunter, an obsolete base scheduled for complete shutdown soon.
Burns, a former helicopter crew chief, said they first spotted "a cluster of lights in the sky about 2,000 feet up. The lights tracked across the sky flashing red and orange, blue and white."
The UFO disappeared behind some trees. But 15 minutes later, at 2:45 a.m., the UFO returned, the MPs reported. After hovering at one end of the deserted runway, its lights flashing brilliantly, it began moving toward the MP patrol car.
"When it got closer, we could see the lights were clustered underneath a metallic-looking saucer-shaped body," Shade said. "The saucer didn't make a sound. I couldn't see anything like portholes or windows. It was scary. We just sat there amazed."
A base spokesman, Lt. David Anderson, said: "There is no official explanation as to what it was. Nothing showed on radar."
THEY ALL SAW IT: These police officers all sighted the same UFO in Carrville, Ala. Left to right are: Wayne Sexton and Stephen Segrest of Tallassee police; Billy Clayton of Carrville police; and James Smith, a Carrville auxiliary policeman.
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ENQUIRER 11/4/73 Page 41
Flying Saucer Ran Our Car Off the Road in 100-m.p.h. Chase, Say Military Policemen
Two badly shaken military policemen say a "saucer-shaped flying object" dived at their patrol car and ran it off the road in a 100-mile-an-hour nighttime chase across a deserted U.S. Air Force base.
The weird incident took place at Hunter Air Force Base near Savannah, Ga., during the same 48-hour period in which a wave of UFOs was reported over the Alabama-Georgia border 300 miles away.
"I thought it was going to hit us," MP Randy Shade, 23, said of the UFO, "or at least smash the blue police light on top of our car."
"I kept my foot on the gas - we were going over 100 - and concentrated on keeping the car on the road. But I could hardly see through the windshield because of the red and white flashes of the saucer's lights just a few feet above us."
Said his MP partner, Burt Burns, 22: "I was terrified when that saucer chased us. I was crouched under the dashboard just waiting for it to hit our rooflights. The saucer itself wasn't lit but we could see its outline clearly in the glow from the flashing, pulsing lights underneath it."
"It couldn't have been more than a couple of feet above us. I reckon the saucer's size at 50 to 75 feet across."
For nearly a mile, the patrol car dashed across the outer taxiway of Hunter Air Force Base. The UFO so unnerved Shade, he skidded off the roadway at a right-angle turn and stopped on the grass.
"The UFO then went back up to tree-top level and skimmed off into the distance," Shade later reported.
The incident occurred early on September 8 while the two Army MPs were on a routine security patrol at Hunter, an obsolete base scheduled for complete shutdown soon.
Burns, a former helicopter crew chief, said they first spotted "a cluster of lights in the sky about 2,000 feet up. The lights tracked across the sky flashing red and orange, blue and white."
The UFO disappeared behind some trees. But 15 minutes later, at 2:45 a.m., the UFO returned, the MPs reported. After hovering at one end of the deserted runway, its lights flashing brilliantly, it began moving toward the MP patrol car.
"When it got closer, we could see the lights were clustered underneath a metallic-looking saucer-shaped body," Shade said. "The saucer didn't make a sound. I couldn't see anything like portholes or windows. It was scary. We just sat there amazed."
A base spokesman, Lt. David Anderson, said: "There is no official explanation as to what it was. Nothing showed on radar."
THEY ALL SAW IT: These police officers all sighted the same UFO in Carrville, Ala. Left to right are: Wayne Sexton and Stephen Segrest of Tallassee police; Billy Clayton of Carrville police; and James Smith, a Carrville auxiliary policeman.
NATIONAL
ENQUIRER 11/4/73 Page 41
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