By Dennis Moran
www.qconline.com3-15-15
Bill Fisher still vividly remembers the strange, bright, silvery object that appeared to be hovering over the Mississippi River on the afternoon of March 9, 1967.
Mr. Fisher, then a Moline police officer, had just parked his three-wheel patrol motorcycle on 16th Avenue across from Sacred Heart School, where his son William Jr. was a student. Others saw the object, too, including neighbors, several students and a couple of nuns. Mr. Fisher retrieved an 8mm movie camera from his police trike and got some footage. It had moved away by then, and what's caught on film is a little indistinct.
But 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....
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See Also:
Moline Patrolmans UFO Film Spurs Air Force Investigation UFO CHRONICLE 3-11-1967
Moline Policeman Spots Two UFOs; Makes Color Motion Pictures of The Objects UFO CHRONICLE 3-10-1967
Moline Patrolmans Film is Not of a Conventional Craft; UFOs Could Be Extraterrestrial, says Professor UFO CHRONICLE 2-5-1970
