By Jeff Kaplan, January 25, 2002

The Rockingham News, rockinghamnews@seacoastonline.com

Note from nhufo.org:  Actual date of sighting is January 24, 2002

 

FREMONT – Unidentified flying objects are not unusual in Rockingham County.  At an increasing pace over the last decade, UFOs have been sighted performing a gymnast’s repertoire of aerial maneuvers.  The Web site www.ufopage.com lists 33 documented sightings since 1995.

 

Last Thursday New Hampshire may have been visited again.

 

At 10:04 p.m. Fremont Police Officer H.D. Wood was dispatched to Main Street to investigate a report of two objects hovering silently in the air.  The objects were described as “bright and full of lights,” according to the police report.

 

Wood had been on these calls before, though his department lacks any protocol to follow and the police academy does not train cadets for these situations.

 

“Quite frankly, I don’t believe we have a policy as how to handle this kind of thing,” Wood said.  “I guess it’s common sense, really.”

 

Wood said the witness was describing the actions of the UFOs as he was en

route.  The witness described the objects as hovering silently in the air.  The larger of the two objects flew south toward Sandown.  The smaller object flew north toward Brentwood.  They were gone when Wood, assisted by a Brentwood police officer, pulled up.

 

“We arrived on the scene and (the witness) said, ‘I’m not crazy.  I’m not on drugs,’” Wood recalled.

 

He said the witness and the witness’s wife and daughter all saw the objects.  The witness claimed a passing motorist also saw the event but didn’t stop.

 

Wood investigated the area, saw no evidence the snow had been disturbed and wrote his report.  Without other witnesses or any physical indication of a visitation, Wood said he considers the case closed.

 

“In my mind, if it’s substantiated, you call the FAA to see if there are any reports of aircraft in the area,” Wood said.  “Then you call other dispatch centers to see if they’ve gotten calls, because what happens is, if something is sighted, everyone is going to call.”

 

Wood said his first reaction when he received the call was to seek background on the caller.

 

“To be honest, when I did get the call I did pull up my laptop to see if we’d had any previous contact at this address,” Wood said.