5 March 1977 23:00
Mcnatt, Missouri, USA
Very bright light lit entire area. Standing roadside was man of normal or slightly smaller stature, human-looking, wore green coveralls, with square goggles, green cap. UFO shaped like water tank.
Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. More than one disc, about fifty feet away, were observed by two witnesses, a married couple,, typical age 26, on a highway (Stites, L). One 5-foot-tall humanoid, wearing a green coverall and goggles and cap, was seen.
Lonnie Stites and his wife, Deborah, were driving their pickup truck around a bend in the road when "the whole area lit up like a football field light was turned on, and a very bright light was shined on our windshield." He saw standing besides the road, a man of normal height or slightly smaller stature, human looking, dressed in green coveralls, with square glasses and a tight green cap over his ears, "waving us down." Up on the hill was another figure carrying what appeared to be "a ball of electricity about the size of a basketball;" he was walking away from an object that looked like a water tank, about 10 feet across and 10 or 15 feet tall, with red lights going around it. The object was about 50-60 feet from them. Mrs Stites said that he saw two persons on the hillside carrying "basketball sized lights," and that the UFO, at one point, flew over the truck. They turned the truck around and drove away in great fear.
Hynek rating: CE3: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Entity reports)
Vallee rating: CE3: Entities have been observed on the UFO.
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