At 2:30 a.m., Frank Riley [pseudonym], a
police officer with a military background, observed what appeared at first to be a
shooting star over the Blue Ridge area of Seymour Mountain. Through the bathroom window he
observed three red and white pulsating cylindrical lights. The sensor alarm in the patio
was activated and the light which illuminated the lane went out. One of his dogs, outside
the house, started to whine. Panic-stricken, Frank tried to wake up his wife, but it took
all his effort to awaken her for just a brief moment before she fell back to sleep
"like a rag doll." This had never happened before. Their nine-month-old child
was "giggling" in the other room - another unusual occurrence. By 3:00 a.m., the
lights had disappeared. Frank remarked that he had never been so frightened in his life.
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