8 March 1965 19:40
Mount Airy, Maryland, USA
Six lights fly overhead slowly (or cigar shaped object)
J. H. Martin, instrument maker for National Bureau of Standards, and two others, saw six lights fly overhead slowly (or a cigar-shaped object with two fixed red lights). It flew above them, avoided hitting the house at the last moment, and was lost to sight in the northeast. Unidentified objects were sighted, that had an unusual appearance or performance.Six red cigar-shaped objects were observed by two groups of three male witnesses in a yard for three minutes (Martin, J H).
Hynek rating: CE1: Close Encounters of the First Kind
Vallee rating: FB1: A simple sighting of a UFO traveling in a straight line across the sky.
Vallee reliability rating: 442: Firsthand personal interview with the witness by a source of proven reliability; site visit by a skilled analyst; natural explanation requires major alteration of one parameter.
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