The article below was published in the daily newspaper Bay City Times, Michigan, USA, on March 13, 1969.
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A flying object with green, yellow and red lights was spotted by at least a dozen persons in Michigan Wednesday night, including two members of an East Tawas family.
The Tawas sighting, phoned in to a Detroit radio station this morning, occurred about 9 p.m. when a teenaged daughter told her mother of a strange light in the Northeast.
"We put our small telescope on it and watched it for nearly an hour," the unidentified woman told radio station WJR disc jockey J. P. McCarthy.
"It was shaped irregular and seemed to be hovering over Wurtsmith Air Force Base."
A base official reported no unusual activity, and said no aircraft was in the area.
Downstate, a similar object was reported in the sky near Port Huron although nearby Selfridge Air Force Base personnel said no aircraft was in the area.
They also said they called Selfridge Air Force Base in Mount Clemens, 40 miles southeast, and that an officer told them there were no aircraft in the area. The officer also reported, they said, that a similar object had been spotted in the Mount Clemens area earlier in the evening.
