The article below was published in the daily newspaper Oklahoma City Times, USA, August 2, 1965.
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"I have several lines drawn and it is shaping up into something, but it is too early to tell."
With that, Hayden Hewes, Oklahoma City shipping clerk who spends his idle time investigating flying saucers, busied himself Monday with plotting the course of unidentified flying objects reported sighted over Oklahoma and eight other states.
"And it's shaping up into more and more evidence—that there was really something in the air following a definite path," Hewes said.
He said there have been at least 2,000 reports from the area, many from Oklahoma.
Hewes believes the sightings since Biblical times have been scout ships from space, flown or monitored by intelligent beings.
Monday, he was checking out reports that began in the northwest last week and spread rapidly into the United States, covering Oklahoma and adjoining areas by the weekend.
The latest reports, Hewes said: "It's too confusing to conclude at this point that every aerial object is a government interplanetary test. It is equally foolish to say they are weather balloons."
He said, however, he leans toward the spaceman theory, explaining: "It is idle speculation for information about our planet. Wouldn't you say the way Mariner 4 invaded Mars?"
Hewes went without sleep Sunday night as he watched the skies from the highway patrol's headquarters in Edmond.
"I myself and six highway patrolmen and a television cameraman saw an object flashing red and white lights and hovering for about an hour."
Bill Reefer, an associate of Hewes, said he saw one himself.
"I saw something. I wouldn't elaborate. When I get one of these things on the ground and get in there and really go to work on it, I would be more inclined to talk," he said.
"Most people are interested in the beings flying these things. But I'm more interested in the propulsion system and the material of which it is constructed.
"I believe there is something there. As to what, I wouldn't hazard a guess."
