Redmond Police officer Robert Dickerson saw a strange bright light (white ball-shaped?) rapidly descending north of the airport then stopped and hovered several hundred (200?) feet above ground for several minutes where it lit up the juniper trees below. He drove toward it on the Prineville Highway then turned toward the airport, when the object turned orange (reddish-orange?) and moved rapidly to (dive and hover?) about ten miles northeast of the airport at about 3,000 feet (height? altitude? Redmond is at 3,000 feet elevation MSL). Dickerson arrived at the airport to report sighting in person at 4:59 a.m. at Redmond FAA Air Traffic Communication Station. FAA Flight Service Specialist Laverne Wertz, Dickerson and others viewed object through binoculars. FAA station reported UFO to Seattle Air Route Control Center at 5:10 a.m, which in turn reported it to Hamilton AFB, Calif, which scrambled six F-102 jets from Portland (?) to intercept UFO. FAA station observers saw object hover and emit long tongues of red, yellow and green light which extended and retracted at irregular intervals. As F-102's approached the object from the southeast (?) it turned into mushroom shape, emitted red and yellow flames from lower side and ascended rapidly, disappearing above scattered clouds at about 14,000 feet (altitude? height?). (Object's departure forced one F-102 to swerve to avoid collision, another nearly lost control from UFO's turbulent wake; tracked on F-102 airborne radars but jets unable to intercept.) Object reappeared about 20 miles south of Redmond at about 25,000 feet. Seattle Center reported at 6:20 a.m. radar contact with object about 25 miles south of Redmond at 52,000 feet was made by USAF Air Defense Command radar site at Klamath Falls, Ore, which tracked a large 300-400 feet (?) target and vectored B-47 and F-89 aircraft to identify. Redmond FAA controllers lost sight of object. Seattle FAA reported at 7:11 a.m. that Klamath Falls radar still tracked object at 25 miles south of Redmond but varying altitude from 6,000 to 52,000 feet.

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