A UFO that caused electro-magnetic (E-M) effects was seen hovering over the Plum Brook Station of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at Sandusky, Ohio, on at least two different occasions in January and February.

The first sighting took place at approximately 6:45 p.m., January 30. Mr. and Mrs. Reinhardt N. Ausmus were traveling north on Route 99 when they spotted an unusually bright light in the sky. Stopping their car, they watched the silently hovering UFO for several minutes before the light was suddenly extinguised. Ausmus is a member of the Early Birds, an organization of World War I flyers.

The second encounter occurred at 3:42 a.m., February 10 and was checked out by NICAP member Earl Neff. Constable Gary Butler, of the Erie County Sheriff's Department, was on routine patrol duty in the Plum Brook Station area when he saw "a bluish, bright colored disc...in a southwesterly direction..."

"I observed the object in a stationary position approximately a mile and a half, maybe two miles away, " Constable Butler said in a tape-recorded interview.

The object then "began to decline towards the ground" and "dissappeared behind a group of trees." The witness radioed the sighting into his station, but experienced some radio interference.

"I had to repeat my transmission two or three times because the deputy at the station could not understand," Butler stated. "Also, there were two officers...who saw a...bright, light object in the sky which they observed for several minutes."