Category 4 Animal Effect Cases

Animal Reaction & Other Features:
Horses spooked, close encounter, multiple witnesses (several police officers), probable radar confirmation, jet scramble. Nuclear submarine base 17 miles away & SAC base near Portsmouth. (Woodward)

Richard Hall:
1:30 A.M. While hitchhiking home in the early hours of September 3, teenager Norman Muscarello was terrorized by a large object with four or five bright red lights that approached from nearby woods and hovered over a field near the road. He went to the Exeter police station, pale and shaken, and reported the incident. Officer Eugene Bertrand drove him back to the field to investigate. About an hour earlier Bertrand had come across a woman parked on Route 101. "She was real upset," he said, "and told me that a red glowing object had chased hen" When he was called to investigate Muscarello's report, the earlier incident caused him to pay attention. At first Bertrand and Muscarello saw nothing, but when Bertrand flashed a light around the field, a huge dark object with red flashing lights rose up over the trees, moving back and forth, tilted, and came toward them. 

Francis Ridge:
We wish to thank Raymond Fowler for his full investigation of the case for NICAP, and the case documents provided. We also wish to thank Barry Greenwood for securing them for us. Also due thanks is New Hampshire school newspaper, SeacoastNH.com for the great articles revisiting the case.  The latest findings were provided by Dan Wilson showing AF attempts to expalin the UFO as a/c.