This article was published in the daily newspaper The New York Times, USA, on August 4, 1965.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 3. (AP) -- Unidentified flying objects, - said by some to be stars, meteors or illusions - were spotted over parts of Minnesota and North Dakota during the night.
Dozens of police officers on patrol between 12:20 and 2:30 A.M. reported sightings in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. According to various reports, the objects "bobbed, dipped, hovered, stopped, jerked along and sped away."
An officer in the surburban Shorewood radioed his dispatcher: "Boys, I hope you don't think I'm crazy, but I just got passed by a star."
The airport control tower said it had seen nothing on radar.
CURITUBA, Brazil, Aug 3. (Reuters). -- A squadron of 18 flying saucers was seen by five persons in the north of Brazil's Parana State, according to press reports here today.
The report said two girls first sighted four objects coming over the horizon in daylight at Astorga, about 250 miles west of Sao Paulo. They called three neightbors, who reportedly saw the four objects followed by 14 other saucers flying in formation.
The objects were described as silvery with a greenish light shining from the top.
