When the young man stumbled into the police station, the officers knew something was wrong

just by looking at his face.

He was panicked and afraid, and it took them a good long while to get him to calm down

and tell his story.

It seems that he had been trying to hitchhike his way through the town when he saw something

that frightened him to the core.

While walking through a neighborhood, he saw lights descend from high above in the

night sky, before hovering roughly 100 feet above the houses.

There were five of them, he claimed, and they were all in a perfect row.

His story actually resembled that of a young woman who had been found sitting in her car

around midnight just a couple of hours before.

When the exeter police had asked her to explain herself, she too told them a story about lights

above the road, except the lights in her story had been read, and they had chased her.

The hitchhiker took one of the officers back to the place where he had witnessed the

lights, and pointed out the wooded area they had moved toward before vanishing.

Together they entered the trees, where both of them claimed to see more lights, now tucked

low inside the small forest.

The next officer to arrive saw them as well.

And those sightings continued, often on for most of September of 1965.

All told roughly 60 witnesses came forward and described the exact same thing, mysterious

lights in the sky over the town of Exeter, New Hampshire, and while explanations have

been tossed around for decades since, there was one prevailing theory at the time.

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