Hillsdale should commemorate 1966 UFO sighting in Arb

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Hillsdale should commemorate 1966 UFO sighting in Arb

http://hillsdalecollegian.com/2017/09/38351/

Hardly anyone on campus remembers that Hillsdale College once had its own close encounter with a UFO — and that's why the college should put up a plaque to commemorate this extraterrestrial event.

On March 21 1966, several women living in the McIntyre residence noticed unusually bright lights floating over the Slayton Arboretum around 10:30 p.m. In an account written three days later for the Collegian, Gidget Kohn '69 described the event as a UFO encounter.

"I ran to my window and there it was, radiating intense silver-white light and heading directly for the dorm," she wrote. "A brief flash of lightning illuminated it for just a second and in that second I saw what appeared to be a squashed football or basketball."

The women in McIntyre were not the only ones to report UFOs over the Arb that night. Harold Hess, then a Hillsdale police officer, was parked in a lot on West Carleton Road with his partner, Jerry Wise. At some point in the night, the two noticed an almost-blinding light hovering somewhere over the college. When Hess and Wise drove around campus to investigate, they discovered the same shining disc-like object that had excited the women in McIntyre hanging over the Arb.