Exeter New Hampshire Low-Level UAP Encounter

At approximately 3:00 AM on September 3, 1965, 18-year-old Norman Muscarello flagged down a police cruiser on Route 150 near Exeter, New Hampshire, in a state of shock. He described a massive, silent object with a ring of red flashing lights hovering over a nearby farmhouse before swooping toward him. Officer Eugene Bertrand returned to the scene with Muscarello and both witnessed the object — approximately 90 feet in diameter with pulsing red lights in a sequential pattern — maneuvering at rooftop level above a nearby field. Officer David Hunt arrived and also witnessed the object before it departed at high speed without sound. Project Blue Book initially attributed the sighting to 'aircraft from Pease Air Force Base in unusual formation' but the officers formally objected in writing, noting the Air Force's own records showed no aircraft in the area at that time. Blue Book subsequently revised the classification to 'unidentified.' The case was investigated by journalist John Fuller and became the basis for the book 'Incident at Exeter' (1966), which brought wider public attention to Project Blue Book's methodology.