An object was observed. Occupants of the craft were seen. Traces found. One ovoid object, about 20 feet across, around 300 feet away, was observed by one male 46-year-old witness on a farm for 30 minutes. No sound was heard.

A farmer was cultivating his fields in the middle of the afternoon when he saw a flash of light in the sky; an object then approached him and he saw it was egg shaped and silvery in color. It descended and just before it landed, legs "grew out of the bottom;" it set down in a cornfield 100 yards from the farmer. A port opened near the bottom and "some people" 4 or 5 feet tall; wearing one-piece metallic looking "flying suits," got out and moved about in the corn for a while before getting back in. With a "slight roar" and a blue flame the UFO disappeared into the sky. Where it had landed the vegetation had been flattened as if by a whirlwind. Other "nests" were found in several Iowa farm towns about the same time.

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