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A Police Officer Goes Aboard a UFO in Nebraska  Source: Michael
Lindemann Original Source   Summary: Article on this classic
case, among the best-documented close encounters.  Police
officer Herbert Schirmer was on routine late-night patrol in the
town of Ashland, Nebraska, on December 3, 1967. At about 2:30
a.m., he noticed a group of lights near the ground and thought
he could make out a semi-trailer off the road. He approached to
investigate, only to see the thing - whatever it was - take off
and disappear in the night sky. When he returned to the police
station at 3:00 a.m., he wrote in the station log, "Saw a flying
saucer at the junction of highways 6 and 63. Believe it or not!"
He went home that morning with a splitting headache and an
inexplicable red welt on the side of his neck. Apart from this,
however, Schirmer had no immediate sense that anything else had
happened.  Though only 22 at the time, Schirmer was so respected
in Ashland tha