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facing the northwest, stopped right in the middle of a sentence and
pointed. The other two men looked and to their astonishment saw a
brilliant glow of light. It was so close to the horizon that it was
difficult to tell if it was on the horizon or in the air just above it.

At first the men ignored the light but as it persisted they became
more interested. They'd all heard "flying saucer" stories and, they
later admitted, this possibility entered their minds.

As they watched they speculated. It could be something natural but
all of them had been around this area for months and they'd never
seen this light before. About the time they decided to get a
telescope and take a closer look the light suddenly faded.

All the next day the men kept glancing off toward the northwest as
they worked but the clear blue sky was blank. Then, at 4:00P.M., the
light was back. This time they had a telescope.

All the men took turns looking at the object and all agreed that it
was about 15 feet long, 5 feet high and solid. It looked like the sun
reflecting off shiny metal. It was about four miles away, they
estimated, and almost exactly on the horizon.

Now the men's curiosity was thoroughly whetted. Martian spaceship or
whatever, they were going after it. But a several-hour search of the
area produced nothing. And, as soon as they left the mill they lost
sight of the object.

Darkness brought the search to a halt.

The next day at 4:00P.M. a crowd had gathered and the UFO kept its
appointment. Again the men studied the object and tension ran high.

Someone had resurrected the stories of UFO's landing in the desert.
At the time they'd sounded absurd but now, standing there looking at
a UFO, it was different.

A party of men were all ready to jeep out into the desert to make
another search when one of them made a discovery. There were guy
wires coming out of the UFO and running down into the trees. Other
people looked. And then the solution hit like a fireball.

Exactly in line with the UFO, and ten miles away, not four, was a
set of antennas for the California State Highway Patrol radio. The
sun's rays were reflecting from these antennas. They'd never seen
this before because on only a few days during the year was the sun at
exactly the right angle to produce the reflection.

The men were right. In a few days the Danby UFO left and it never
came back.

Nineteen hundred fifty-eight was not a record year for UFO's. The
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