The sparsely populated Yakima Indian Reservation is 3500 miles square, divided between rugged wilderness in the west and flat lands in the east. Beginning in the late 1960s, forest rangers, fire-control personnel, and others began reporting the movement of bright white lights low in the sky over rough terrain on both the north and south sides of Toppenish Ridge, which cuts through the reservation’s east-central section.
When these reports came to the attention of Bill Vogel, chief fire-control officer, by his own account he would greet them with knowing smiles, an embarrassed shuffling of papers, and advisement to keep us informed. Then late one night, as he was on patrol south of Toppenish, he saw something above a hill…
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