On the evening of December 30, 1967, shortly after dusk, I observed along with two other witnesses, a circular craft, approximately 40 to 50 feet in diameter, as it floated over the mobile home where I was living at the time.

The craft was soundless and completely devoid of any light source except for an amber basketball size mass of swirling energy that seemed to posses electrical properties.
The amber ball of swirling energy was located underneath the faintly silver rim of a UFO and was located nearest me along the rim.
The craft then emitted a red cone-shaped beam from its underside seemingly searching for a landing site. Moments later, the craft paused and a string of red lights began flashing back and forth in a 5-4-3-2-1, 1-2-3-4-5- pattern around the objects midsection. The first craft was then joined by a second craft that flew in from its right side. The two crafts then dropped below the treeline and out of sight.
Minutes later, two jets and a single column of helicopters approached the UFO hotspot from the east.
After several minutes the Air Force jets and choppers left the area.
At approximately 1:50 am the craft to the left rose up from the exact location that it had disappeared below the tree line nearly seven hours earlier.
The object displayed the same pattern of red flashing lights around its middle.
Then it shot straight up, paused and then the red flashing lights began to fade as the UFO took on a more luminous appearance and reminded me of a star as it just hung there in the dark, starry sky.
Then, the eastern horizon lit up with orange and white colors as a Minute Man 2 missile rose up and within moments began its arc downrange the Eastern Test Range over the Atlantic.
The luminous UFO then began zig-zagging across the sky, then performed a falling-leaf pattern, and all in one continuous lightning-swift motion.
Then the UFO shot to the left and seemed to draw very near the rapidly climbing missile. Then the UFO darted to the right, paused then shot off to the right again and vanished.
I waited until sunrise but I never got to see the second craft leave the location of which it had apparently landed nearly 12 hours or so earlier.
The above UFO sighting was the first of numerous other sightings that happened in the same area over the course of the next nine months.