There may be other possibilities...
In all seriousness, that extract is edited and comes from the following:
BENTWATERS--THE TESTIMONY OF JOHN BURROUGHS
By J. Antonio Huneeus
"Perhaps a bit obsessed with his experience on the night of December 26th, the airman went to the forest on his own, encountering the patrol under Col. Halt and several other soldiers in charge of the trucks with light-alls, which were not functioning well.
He explained in our interview that "there was something out there that was intelligent" and that "blue transparent type lights came off the main craft" and were "able to do different things and flew over the top of us and flew through a pick up truck."
He is, however, in strong disagreement with Larry Warren's account of three small humanoid aliens which allegedly floated from the main craft. "It depends on what you consider aliens," said Burroughs, "I consider that could be intelligent life, but I would say they weren't aliens as we see green men and stuff like that, but they did do stuff that could led you to believe they were intelligent."
(End)
"...and that 'blue transparent type lights came off the main craft'...".
What "main craft", would that be, our second night?
This seems to come back to a central question and I have referenced it previously in post #939, writing:
"What resulted in Lt. Bruce Englund interrupting Halt at the belated officer's Christmas dinner to alert that, 'the UFO was back'?
I recalled having surmised a conceivable explanation for this and have eventually located same.
Uploaded is the original publication in its entirety:
http://www.forteanmedia.com/V16.txt
(End)
The relevant portion in that newsletter reads:
The Lieutenant who drew Halt's attention to the flashing light was Bruce Englund. Earlier that evening, Halt was attending a belated officer's Christmas party when his festivities were interrupted by Englund, who informed Halt the 'UFO was back'.
Why Englund believed the 'UFO' had returned, has recently become much clearer.
The foundation was an incident which involved Airman Greg Battram and his patrol.
(...)
Battram publicly come forward as a witness for the February, 1985 CNN special feature, presented by Chuck DeCaro. I have acquired a transcript and Battram, at that time given anonymity as 'Airman Greg', testified:
(Start)
DeCaro: Airman Greg is a former Air Force security policeman who says he was a witness to the second of the two UFO landings within days of each other outside the USAF air base...
Airman Greg: We were about halfway into the shift, I guess, when we noticed some lights in the sky that, uh, didn't seem to follow any pattern of the aircraft we'd seen. And, uh, we, uh, watched them for a while and they disappeared. And the next thing we saw was, uh, the lights in the forest...in a clearing off the end of the runway.
And, uh, we called Central Security Control to tell them we'd like to investigate it, and they gave us permission to go on out. As we got in there, you could see into the clearing and see a series of lights in there surrounded by a ground fog.
(...)
And about that time, we decided that we'd better get the heck out of there 'cause we were getting a little scared to stand around...".
(End of CNN extract)
Battram retold a similar account which was published in 'Left at East Gate', co-authored by Larry Warren and Peter Robbins, published in 1997.
The interview with Battram was actually undertaken on 7 February 1984 by 'UFO' researcher and author Larry Fawcett...
(...)
Battram states his patrol then met up with Lt. Bruce Englund and told him about the forest apparition.
Presumably, this was the report which led Englund to inform Halt that the 'UFO' had returned.
(End of newsletter extract)
Was this the genesis of our second episode?
If Halt was called out to investigate another, 'UFO' then what had happened to it?
As we know, he initially spent his time wandering around, having radiation readings taken. There was no actual object to investigate.
We have 3 seperate accounts, from Warren, Bustinza and Battram, of an object amidst ground fog.
Did that never actually occur?
What is Burroughs referring to?
Anyone help to make sense of this aspect?
Even a wee bit would be welcome!