UFO Seen by Judge
By Leonard Thornton for the National Inquirer, Feb. 4, 1968.
Three glowing orange circles flying in triangular formation high in the sky were seen at the same time by a 12-year-old girl and a Superior Court Judge.
Judge Charles Bennett, of Denver, Colo., said: "I don't know whether the three circles were joined or if they were the extemities of a Flying Saucer or what else they might have been.
"I only know what I saw and I can't explain it."
the sighting occurred on the evening of October 5. Judge Bennett was sitting in his parked car talking to his wife, Patty, and his mother, Mrs.Myrtle bennett, who were standing on the sidewalk outside the senior Mrs.Bennett's house.
"I was looking at my wife when suddenly I caught a movement just by her head. I yelled at them both: 'Look at that,' and they looked up and saw exactly what I saw.
"It was a series of lights in a triangular formation flying fast toward the southeast. They movedfaster than any jet I ever saw and the lights were in such formation that I'm convinced they couldn't have been on any conventional aircrft."
Bennett estimated the lights at about 50 or 75 feet in diameter and flying at 2,000 or 3,000 feet.
At the same time, in another part of Denver, Carla Batchler, 12, ran from her bedroom to tell her mother, Mrs.Roy Batchler, she could hear a humming sound in the sky.
"Neither of us went outside," said Mrs.Batchler, "and the noise stopped abruptly.
"Next morning I read in the newspaper about Judge Bennett's sighting of the lights and I wondered if there could have been some connetion. Later my daughter told me she had seen the three bright rings, as described by Judge Bennett, from her bedroom window."
Experts at the University of Colorado's government-sponsored UFO program interviewed Judge Bennett but a spokesman said afterwards: "It was a very interesting sighting but we have not been able to make any definite analysis or reach any conclusion on the basis of the information we have."
[From UNDERSTANDING, March 1968]