Petawawa, Ontario: Light appears to follow car, descends to 60 feet; police track it

Early in the morning of July 13, 1969, Edgar Paquette and Mrs. Leo Edwards were driving near Petawawa, Ontario, when they saw a bright star that lit up the Ottawa River next to them. Convinced the light was following them, Paquette turned off the headlights, which made the object appear to hesitate; when he got out of the car and the interior light went on, the object descended to within 60 feet of the ground. When he signaled it with a flashlight, it came even closer, and Paquette saw that it was 8 feet in diameter with two legs beneath it. Both panicked and drove home, dragging their teenage children out of bed to look at the light. Ontario police officers Jack McKay and Grant Chaplin followed the light for 38 minutes as it traveled at high altitude. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.