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and distant, it would later be intensely illuminated , re photographed with high quality film and pushed to show great detail in a blow-up. There was sufficient light re flected from the ground to make the entire vehicle visible. Bob Oechsler, a MUFON State Section Director from An napolis, Maryland , managed this effort . After about three minutes, the light source on the bot tom of the vehicle became brighter and it took off, flying very fast directly toward Ed . His wife had joined him with a new pack of film . He took photos 15 , 16 and 17 . Photo 16 was taken when the object was nearly overhead , and 17 (from the new pack) showed the object close to the roof of the house . The image was twenty-two millimeters wide on the Polaroid picture . There was some confusion about the sequence of these photographs . This confusion would lead eventually to hypnotic regression that indicated Ed had been take on board , while his wife had somehow been incapacitated with no memory of the abduction .
December 22, 1987, 1 7:15 hrs Ed heard a hum in his head which lasted nine or ten min utes . When he looked out the back and front of his house , he saw no object . The next day Ed speculated that this humming might have been associated with the three UFOs photographed by ' ' Believer Bill , ' ' whose nine colored prints were put in the Gulf Breeze Sentinel drop box at 08 : 00 on December 23 . The toy " Hot-Shot" camera that exposed the film was also provided . A public appeal in the January 21 , 1988 edition of the Sentinel for ' ' Believer Bill ' ' to provide the date, time , and location of his sighting was answered . He said they were taken at about 17 : 15 on December 22 , near Shorel ine Drive, which is just on the other side of the high school from Ed's home. 1\vo of the nine grainy photographs showed two identical Type- 1 ve hicles .
December 23, 1987, 05:55 hrs Ed told investigators that he went out of his back door to turn on the pool pump when the sky was just beginning to lighten in the east (sun rise was 06: 39) . He saw three