A school principal and two teachers (Pistone, Wilson, Metz) were driving home in separate cars and saw a huge object come over a cliff, then over their cars, bathing them in intense light. The object hovered over power lines for about ten minutes, then headed towards the airport. The principal drove to airport and found it had been witnessed their by others - two attorneys on the ground, and an Ozark Airliner crew. The crew saw two large round flat objects below the plane on final landing approach, moving in various directions.

Hynek quotes part of the Air Force report made by the principal:

I was coming home from a PTA meeting and heading down a small country road, blacktop, and I was thinking of the blackboards the PTA had promised to give me for my school. All of a sudden I noticed a glow coming from over the cliff — and I thought, well, one of the old goony birds is off course, and she's going to land in this cornfield. And this was the first thing that hit my mind. Then this unbelievable object — shaped something like a World War I helmet — came over the top of the cliff. ... I slowed down at this point. ... I couldn't understand why an airplane would be on this glide path — and this huge object, over 300 feet, I'd estimate, came over the cliff and stood still almost directly over me for a split second like any object changing direction and then took off toward the airport.

... It was terrific bright light. The top of the car seemed to have no effect in holding out light. It was a terrific bright light, unbelievable, I tell myself. When I looked at my hands, it looked like I was looking at X-ray photos.

…Well, then I decided the airport should know about it, so I headed over toward the airport. But I didn't have to tell the people outside. They'd seen it. A couple of lawyers from Kansas City were still standing there with their mouths hanging open. It had flown practically over the airport, but they hadn't told the tower yet. It's a small airport, and there's no glass tower where they'd be watching. They were busy inside because the Ozark flight was due in. . . . By the way, the Ozark pilot ... if I remember hearing the radio correctly, said, "I see it --- it's below me --- it's huge," as he was coming in for a landing.

When the Air Force came down . . . his attitude was not "did you see it," but "how much of it did you see?"

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