Ashland, Nebraska officer Herbert Schirmer reports encounter and missing time

Name: Ashland, Nebraska officer Herbert Schirmer reports encounter and missing time
Start: 1967-12-03
Location: Ashland, NE

When: 3 Dec 1967
Where: Ashland, NE
Sources: 2 public sources

Ashland, Nebraska, where officer Herbert Schirmer reported his 1967 encounter Ammodramus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ashland police officer Herbert Schirmer said he saw a lighted, saucer-shaped craft over a highway before dawn and later could not account for about 20 minutes. The Condon Committee examined the case and said it had no confidence the experience was physically real.

Sources

OfficialScientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Case 42 (opens in a new tab)University of Colorado (Condon Committee) under U.S. Air Force contract (text hosted by NCAS) / 1969
PressLocal UFO story revitalized after beer, comic book comes out (opens in a new tab)KMTV 3 News Now (Omaha)

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