Syracuse, New York: Police helicopter sent after diamond-shaped object over Webster Pond
At 9:15 p.m. on March 29, 1978, a police helicopter was dispatched to Kramer Street in Syracuse, New York, after Officer Edgar Prue reported a diamond-shaped object with blinking colored lights above Webster Pond; the object shot up and disappeared.
Background
At 9:15 p.m. a police helicopter was dispatched to Kramer Street in Syracuse to investigate Officer Edgar Prue's report of a diamond-shaped object above Webster Pond. The object carried a criss-cross pattern of red, blue, green and yellow blinking lights on its surface. It quickly shot up into the air and disappeared. The helicopter pilot reportedly glimpsed it. According to the Syracuse Herald-Journal, police were being told not to talk to the press or investigators. 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.