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The 1966 Dexter, MI sightings: Walter Cronkite, Hynek's infamous "marsh gas" verdict, and the witnesses who are finally being heard. Local newspaper documentary my friend made.

A friend produced this for the Sun Times News in Dexter, Michigan — a long-form interview revisiting the March 1966 Dexter sightings, the case the Air Force's J. Allen Hynek famously dismissed as "swamp gas." The main guest is Raymond Shamansky, a Detroit engineer who spent nearly 40 years as a senior scientist at Wright-Patterson AFB. He breaks down how a reporter triangulated police reports across four jurisdictions over three nights in March 1966 and realized officers were all describing t...