Discovery Channel investigators put together the cable special after interviews with Murter and the other residents.
Investigators made several trips to her home to try to document what she saw. Murter believes she saw UFOs in the rear yard of her Village of Pennbrook apartment on several occasions and took photos of the second and third sightings.
While investigators said her photos may not identify what she really saw, “she really seems to be telling the truth,” said John Ventre, director of the Mutual UFO Network, known as MUFON.
In the show, Murter says she saw a strange object “as it shuffled across the sky” and hovered over trees in her backyard as many as five times between April and July. She said all of incidents occurred between 1 and 4 a.m. and several times the object sprinkled a sparking, metallic substance on one of the trees.....
The state MUFON came to Falls in late July and investigated Murter’s claims. Investigators took leaf and soil samples from the tree Murter claims was showered in the dust, and samples from a second tree a block away. Three independent laboratories checked the samples with different results. One lab insisted that the leaves from the tree in her yard had been subjected to high heat or radiation. The leaves also had very high levels of boron and magnesium, but none were found in the soil or in the tree a block away, said Ventre.
One scientist, W.C. Levengood, hired by MUFON, tested the leaves and said Denise “saw a very unusual phenomenon.”
Murter said being in the cable special was weird at first because she doesn’t believe in science fiction and no interest in UFOs until this happened.
“I’m disappointed I did not catch a better photo,” she said. “However I feel positive about the whole thing because I know what I saw.”
June 22, 2008 Penna
