By Joe Leicht

It's probably too soon to rename the area between Waterloo and Millstadt "Roswell East," but either aliens have taken a liking to the area, the folks at Scott Air Force Base have been doing some odd things, or imaginations of respected locals here have been running wild.

It was nearly a month ago the History Channel and its "UFO Hunters" crew visited Millstadt on a fact-finding mission spurred by a former village police officer who reported seeing an unidentified flying object in the early morning skies Jan. 5, 2000.

Officer Craig Stevens, who has since relocated and left the department, described a large, triangular object with three white lights, one red light and a bank of strobing lights officials at nearby Scott Air Force Base could not explain.Charles Metzger, a Waterloo alderman for more than 30 years and a man not known for flights of fantasy, is keeping an open mind about Stevens' alleged sighting and other unexplained skyborne phenomena. That's because Metzger has seen similar objects-one recently and one as a youth.

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