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At least 10 persons in the Port Huron area, including three young girls who were riding ponies along North River Road, observed what has been classified as an unidentified flying object Wednesday night.

Police dispatcher James Schmidt received the first telephone call about 9:00 p.m. from Brian Karl, 16, of 3812 North River Road.

Brian told Dispatcher Schmidt that a large light had followed his sister, Debbie Karl, 13, home and was hovering over their home.

Officer Schmidt radioed the Sheriff Department and deputies Robert Johnson and David Doktor responded.

Brian and Debbie and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Karl, were in the yard watching the light when officers arrived.

Debbie told the officers that she first saw the light as she and her companions were riding their ponies along the shoulder of the road.

Both the deputies observed the light in the sky as they arrived.

Debbie said she was riding on Dykeman Road, when the light that seemed to look like a large street light with a tail, began to follow them.

She said there was no noise.

She said the light followed the girls right to her home and seemed to hang over the house as she ran to get her parents.

Mrs. Karl said that when Debbie came into the house she seemed frightened and panicky and asked her to come out in the front yard.

Mrs. Karl said the light stayed over their home for about two hours and didn't move.

"About 9:20 p.m. it began to move away slowly and looked like a ball of fire with strands of fire coming out of it."

"There was no noise and it was quite high up."

"When it was overhead it was a brilliant, brilliant white light and it had prongs on it that appeared to be red, green and yellow.

"When it started to leave it began to change color."

"It was a lot lower than the stars."

"I didn't believe in this kind of stuff before, but it was there, definitely there was something out there," Mrs. Karl said.

Mr. Karl told officers he watched the light through his binoculars and he told officers it also had green, yellow and red lights on it.

Deputies Johnson and Doktor said they could see the object from the Karl yard and followed it north to the Jeddo area where they lost sight of it.

Many persons claimed the "light in the sky" was just an airplane from Selfridge.

But it wasn't.

An official at Selfridge Air Force Base reported there were no planes from the base in the area.

However, he did say that Selfridge had received similar reports from the Mount Clemens area that a UFO had been observed there too.