They saw a lighthouse through the trees and fog and didn’t know what it was.
I have seen the same thing happen when the Moon comes up with a low scud of clouds or fog.
Except that in this case there was no moon, or something like that. The moon was ruled out. These guys were no dummies.
Lighthouses are radioactive?
“They saw a lighthouse through the trees and fog and didn’t know what it was.”
Except for the part where there was something on the ground and one of them actually touched it.
I just got a new book about it; I’ll have a read and see how good a case it makes.
Something odd happened there. You had too many witnesses, most of them USAF security police including a Lieutenant Colonel who would have known making something up like this would have nothing but adverse effects on his career. I’m certainly not convinced it was alien activity, but certainly something bizarre occurred there.