6 February 1966 05:45
Nederland, Texas, USA
Tadpole-shaped object with an intense red light beam floats over a house
Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Gulley saw a tadpole-shaped object about 14 feet long x 2 feet wide, with eight yellow and red neon-like lights, at 250-500 foot altitude. It cast a pulsating red glow on the lawn. House and street lights went out, and a high frequency sound bothered the witnesses' ears. The object blinked out when an aircraft passed overhead, then came on again afterward. The object departed to the west for about 1-1/2 miles, in the vicinity of the airport, where an aircraft's landing lights lit up the UFO. It then disappeared at about 20°-25° elevation in a slow climb. An object was observed. Electromagnetic effects were noted.One yellow-red tadpole-shaped object, about 10 feet across, around 500 feet away, was observed in overcast weather by two witnesses, a married couple, in a residential area for one to five minutes (Gulley, K R).
Hynek:
As I looked out of the window, I realized that the neighborhood was lit up in a red glow. My first thought was that a police car was parked nearby or a fire truck. I called to my wife that something must be wrong in the neighborhood and to come and see. Suddenly I realized the light was coming from overhead. I looked up and saw the outline of an object moving out past the pitch of my roof, approximately 250-500 feet high. The red glow was coming from beneath the object, about center. It appeared as a stream of light coming from inside through a hole. . . . My neighbor's green pickup truck looked brownish.
An airplane took off from the airport and passed overhead of the object. All the lights went out until the plane was past it. Then with approximately four bright flickers, the object moved from west to southwest and through the overcast .... It seemed to me that this object was charting a course or investigating different objects on the ground, as the lights would stop on certain objects such as cars, pickups, hedges, shrubbery, houses, utility lines, and poles.
Hynek rating: CE2: Close Encounters of the Second Kind
Vallee rating: CE2: A CE1 that leaves landing traces or injuries to the witness.
Vallee reliability rating: CCC:
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