Exeter is a small town in Rockingham County in New Hampshire in the United States.

It's a quiet and peaceful place, not the sort of place one would immediately link with UFOs.

Yet in 1965, this sleepy tone would be ground zero for a series of events that would thrust

it into the public consciousness and become one of the best

known string of UFO sightings in history. This is the Exeter UFO incident. This is somewhere in the skies, with Ryan Spread. Oh, It was just after midnight on September 3rd, 1965.

Police officer Eugene Bertrand would receive a strange call at the Exeter Police Desk.

A young woman, in an obvious state of distress, claimed to have been chased by a flying object while driving.

Scared for her life, she pulled the car to the side of the road on Route 101.

The mysterious craft had now vanished in the distance, but she didn't dare move.

Bertrand did his best to assure the frightened woman that she was in no danger.

He strongly suspected it might be some kind of prank by teenagers to waste their time.

Bertrand would proceed on his patrol duty, sure that the young woman had made a mistake.

However, later that night a call came over the police radio

that made Birch End rethink the strange report. Another claim of a bizarre sighting in the sky had come in, and the witness sat at the station ready to tell his tale.

At around the same time as the first reported events were unfolding. 18-year-old Norman Muscarello was

attempting to hitchhike back to Exeter after having visited his girlfriend in nearby Amesbury. While no cars seemed to be in sight, he was relieved

when he saw the glow of what he assumed were car headlights heading his way in the distance.

However, he would soon realize that the light was something much, much

more remarkable than a car. In a matter of seconds, an enormous ball of red and blue light shot upward and directly above

Norman. It scared me to death. Whatever this thing was it was right above me it was as

big as a house. Norman could hear the

agitated barks of several dogs in the area as well as disturbed cries of

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