MUTUAL UFO NETWORK, INC.

Sighting Investigation 

Pete Hartinger called and set up an interview for July 5, 2004 at 10:00 AM. Pete Hartinger, Jon Fry and I arrived and started interviewing promptly at 10:00 on the dot. We interviewed both the chief witness and his young nephew. The nephew's friend had since moved away. The witnesses' testimony was compatible, but there are problems with the fact that this is a case of very high strangeness and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, in my opinion. All we have, however, is the witness claims. A check of my star charts revealed several bright lights in the sky on this date in the West and also in the South. The bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair, as well as the Planet Venus were in approximately the West. Mars was in the South. Atmospheric conditions could have made the stars appear to change in size and color as well as position. The weather reports seem to agree with what the witnesses said about the weather. Snow on the ground, clear visibility and turning cold in the evening. Because of the fact that the second witness is a minor and a relative of the main witness the case is not as good as if there were an independent witness. There did not appear to be any attempt to deceive on the part of the witnesses. But in the end all we have are very unusual claims. PH, JF and I are in agreement that on a scale of 10, with a rating of 10 being the best, that this case rates a 4 in terms of Strangeness and Reliability. I would rate this case one of ORDINARY Significance based on the MUFON categories of Great Significance, Significant, Ordinary and Borderline. One other point is that the area where this incident took place is in the flight pattern of air force jets out of Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH.