The Truth Is ..... In Milford?

By Michael Cleveland, May 21, 1997

The Cabinet, Milford, N.H., pg. 3

 

MILFORD – An unidentified flying object over Milford?

     Call Scully and Muldur!

     Well, no, that’s fiction.

     But a UFO over Milford isn’t, insisted Walter Friesendorf during a talk to the Milford-Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce at its breakfast meeting last Thursday.

     Friesendorf, who is assistant state director of the New Hampshire UFO Network (MUFON), is one of several people in the state trained to investigate UFO sightings.

     One he investigated occurred in 1991 in Milford when an employee of Permattech Diamond Tool Corporation spotted something in the sky at 6 a.m. while he was on his way to work.

     Friesendorf said the man was coming around the Oval and spotted a formation of lights traveling about 15 miles an hour in the vicinity of McDonald’s.  The formation made no sound and was at about tree-top level.

 

Directly overhead

When the man pulled into the Permattech parking lot, the lights came directly overhead. 

   He later said the shape was triangular and about 30 feet long.

     It wasn’t the only local UFO sighting, Friesendorf told the Chamber.  There was also one near the Milford-Wilton border when a family, traveling in two cars saw an object flying at a low rate of speed at tree-top level, making no sound.

     What did these people actually see?  No one really knows for sure.  They are classified as UFOs because they are unidentified.

     Friesendorf told the Chamber that there were 20 to 30 sightings a year in New Hampshire, many in the Warner area near Lake Winnipesaukee and some near Colebrook.

      Friesendorf took several questions from Chamber members, one about alleged government cover-ups of UFO sightings and, even, captured aliens and their craft.  The gist of the question was, “What has the government to gain by a cover-up?”

     Friesendorf said he didn’t know, but added that he was sure the government knew more about UFOs than it has revealed to the public.

     “There is all sorts of circumstantial evidence that (the government) probably knows a lot,” he said.

     And, he said, one possible explanation for a government cover-up is historic:  When UFOs were first sighted; the government didn’t know what they were and didn’t understand how to deal with them, so, basically, officials lied.  Now it might be too late to stop lying.

     Friesendorf said the organization to which he belongs has about 130 members in New Hampshire but several thousand nationwide.  Each year, MUFON holds a convention in Portsmouth.