Hartshorne

Investigations by the IIOUFO into UFO sightings in and
around Hartshorne, Oklahoma which is located in the South-
eastern part of Oklahoma began last August 18, 1965 when we
received a detailed report from Mrs. Altaclair Morgan.

The UFOs were described as cigar-shaped objects some-
times 40-50 feet across, which was centered with several red
flashing lights. Another type UFO which has been observed
on many occasions is called 'red blinkers', which is no more
than a large red blinking object.

After a new increase in UFO sightings in the Hartshorne
area during the first part of February an investigation was
made on March 19 by IIOUFO Senior Director William Riefer
Director, Hayden Hewes, and Secretary Victor Johnston.

IIOUFO has a list of 104 residents of Hartshorne who have
sighted UFOs in the past nine months. As many as 42 persons
have watched them at one time. From February to March over
20 reports were received.

The IIOUFO taped interviews with 28 of the witnesses
which included the Chief of Police, the Hartshorne Postmaster
as well as many outstanding residents of the area.

The UFOs have been reported at tree top level on many
occasions and as close as a few hundred feet.

The area was tested for radioactivity and in some areas
registered over '500 clicks per minute, as compared with
normal reading of from 18-20.'

The following report was made by IIOUFO member Mrs.
Altaclair Morgan who joined the IIOUFO to help us solve the
Hartshorne mystery.

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"THE HARTSHORNE SIGHTINGS'
by Altaclair Morgan

I looked at my first UFO with the steady calm I would use
in scanning over a skyscraper.... studying it in every detail, noting the absence of such things as wings, a tail, windows
and noise. Trying to decide the width and length, and how
wide the black band that ran horizontal through the middle
might be, Then, realizing that I was seeing this alone, and
that someone could be in the object observing me at the same
time I was observing it, I suddenly became almost panicky. I
began running toward the UFO, which sat hovering over the
trees just about 500 feet from our home. I also started holler-
ing very loudly for someone to come see it with me. The Thing
began to move slowly...no wobbling, no bright lights glaring.
but no noise could be heard. I stood and watched it go out of
my sight like the twinkling of an eye.

It was truly breathtaking, and I was very spent, but I want-
ed to tell everyone what I'd seen, and soon several were out
with their binoculars trying to find it again somewhere in the
sky. It had completely vanished.

At 10:30 that night when my husband and sons returned from
a baseball game in another town, I immediately, and excitedly
began my story. They all looked at me in such a queer way,
that I knew if they didn't believe me, who would? I waited a
few days, and gradually five others who had viewed it at
different times, came forward with their stories.

That was on July 26, 1965. Following that evening, the
nightly vigil began at 5:00 PM. Several of our neighbors joined
me in the watch, which did not bring another sighting of the
cigar-shaped object, but instead something entirely different
and new appeared in our section of town. Coming first in a
group of three during an autumn rain, we spotted three red
blinking objects. They came from the west, between the tree-
lines, and moved in over the fields just across the street west
of our home. (Their light reminded us of the crashlight on a
plane, or the light on an ambulance.) They came up together
for a few moments, just as if they were talking or making some
kind of contact, and then they separated, and each went a
different direction. After about forty five minutes, they all
met at the same place, and went back into the west.

For nine weeks we watched the objects come at the same
time each night, but sometimes one would come from another
direction. Yet, it was almost at the same hour, 8:30 PM, and
they would leave back into the west by 9:00 PM, after they had
made their tour around town, over the treetops and roofs.

When the weather became too cool for us to remain long
periods of time outdoors, we began watching from inside our
homes, and would run outdoors only when we saw the blinkers coming in. The weather did not ever seem to interfere with their coming and going.

Then their schedule suddenly changed, and we had to just
watch for them at all times, never knowing when they would
appear. For a couple of nights they might come at 7:00 PM
and at other times, other hours. But they never failed to come. One to five now would show. 

Then another new one was added, and this one had a silver
and red flash, not just the red flash. This one seemed to be
some sort of leader. Much of the time he would come in, as
one still does, at a higher altitude than the red blinkers. He
appears to be a long object, similar to just an airplane wing
with no fore or aft...just a wing. On either end, there are two
red flashers lined up, and in the middle the silver flasher
seems to run the width of the thing. The red blinkers on the other hand, are egg-shaped, or at least I am pretty certain
they are, because one night when my sons Larry, Marc, and I
were watching one at a distance of sixty feet where it came to
a stop near a telephone pole, then turning in a few moments
after it stopped completely, the mercury lights caught what
seemed to be a silver or white egg-shaped object behind the
light. (As it approached us just before this I warned the boys
not to go closer because we didn't know about what the light
might do to us. That is when it came to a dead stop, as if i
overheard me, and didn't want to alarm us.)

They also seem to blink in a different rhythm when going
slow, then when they are going fast. They also can turn around
to the solid side, and glide along in the dark like a faint glow.

This has been happening for eight months.

Whatever the mystery is out there, it is overwhelming. Our
curiosity is growing more and more. Since this all began I have given much thought to the interplanetary idea, and it also
grows in thought. If any government on earth had these objects under their control, they surely would have employed them long ago at sometime, somewhere, and especially in warfare. Because they are noiseless, not too noticeable unless you are watching for them, and they can maneuver into any spots instantly, and in any direction quickly. And we have also seen a large object move in the sky, and drop a clob of red, which came at us as the blinkers.

Women who see them are mystified. Men who see them ask
questions...but receive no answers. Children who see them
row accustomed, and continue playing as if the objeets are
supposed to be there. And so, this is how it goes in this little
southeastern Oklahoma town of Hartshorne.