Varying descriptions of what was seen indicate the difficulty in describing it in familiar terms: "Erector set material with white lights reflecting on it with red lights on the top" ; "Four searchlights?" "The object was a regular trapezoid, although I could not make out its exact outline. There seemed to be a dim light on top, perhaps a small structure there"; "Red lights about as bright as a hot electric stove"; "It was glowing around the white lights. It reflected like some sort of metal"; "I have never seen anything like this before"; "The object was too large to be any kind of aircraft. The shape was odd and did not resemble a balloon or helicopter at all"; "The object hovered in a fixed position, then turned and disappeared in a westerly direction. It rose and flew out of sight".

One red ball was observed by three groups of three female witnesses in a rural area for over 15 minutes.

Hynek quotes three of the witnesses:

…Janice noticed the object, so Kim pulled over. They wanted to get out of the car, but I didn't. All of a sudden the car stalled, and the radio and the lights went off. Then nobody wanted to get out of the car. Truthfully, I was too scared to carefully observe the object. I just noticed the four lights when they passed. Kim finally got the car going.

..Janice said, "What's that?" I just glanced out of the window and said, "Must be a helicopter." Janice would not dismiss it as such, and then Kim became very excited. At first she [Kim] laughingly said, "It must be a UFO or flying saucer." All of a sudden it wasn't funny anymore. ... I was scared, and I refused to get out of the car. We had just pulled the car over. Suddenly the car stalled and the radio and the lights went out. The object passed, and the car started. …

When we got close to the object, the car stalled and the lights and our radio all went off at the same time. After this I tried to start the car twice while the object appeared to remain stationary. Thinking that the lights and radio would be drawing too much power from the battery ... I shut the light switch and the radio off. Then I tried to start the car again twice. It did not start. Next, the object in the sky seemed to start moving away from us. I tried to start the car again, and it immediately started, proving that it was not flooded. . . . Since we had replaced the battery in our car just three weeks ago [prior to the sighting], I do not believe it was the car's fault. I had the clutch in at all times since I was pulling off to the side of the road to stop.

... I saw an object to the left of us in the sky, which at first appeared to be a plane. As we approached it, I saw that it was too large and too low to be a plane and called the attention of the other occupants to it. . . . The object was moving in the same direction as we were at first, then stopped for about a minute, then flew off, and the car started again. The object made no noise, and it did not affect the street lights in the area.

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