. . . that thing came from the dip in the hill, real fast but real, real smooth like something gliding, but lower than any plane, and hovered and stopped above that car. Then is when its lights went out, and I pulled onto the gravel because I thought it was a kid. He put out his lights, and I didn't want to smash into him -- at all of this my lights were dimming slightly, but I didn't think anything of it until my engine, lights, and radio went out and stopped. This happened to me when it left that car and came down the highway . . . and was above us. It came down over from the other car. It was pretty low. When I looked out of my windshield I had to bend forward toward the wheel, and I looked straight up and there it was above us -- with the car dead. I had opened the window when the other car's lights went out, and it was open then -- and absolutely no sound.
Q: Were you conscious at all of stopping your car, or did the motor go out entirely by itself?
A: No, I stopped it.
Q: You stopped the car?
A: And the car was running.
Q: Well, I mean the engine.
A: Yes, the engine was still running.
Q: And then what happened?
A: ... and then this red object came, it hovered, it came above us. And all of a sudden everything got real still
Q: Well, now, tell me this. If you had some magic way of putting something up in the sky that closely resembled what you saw, what more or less common thing that you have around would you put up there that would most closely resemble in shape what you saw?
A: Well, you know those rolls that you buy of Bisquick or Pillsbury and they're in that little tube in your refrigerator case in the store, and you rap on the side of your counter and then you get out triangle shaped dough and then you roll that up and it looks like a crescent shape? That's what it would look like.
Q: I see. Well, I'm not exactly a cook, but I can figure this. Let's see, are you acquainted with Australian boomerangs?
A: Australian?
Q: Well, boomerangs. You know what a boomerang looks like?
A: I've never had one. It would be like that, except it was more rolled than flat.
Q: Now, you kept calling it a red color. What shade of red?
A: Oil paint. The best color I can say it would be is an orangeish-red. And it was like an Indian sunset or something in color.
Q: Did it appear to be a solid object, or did it appear to be mostly light?
A: Well, when it came above us, then it was definite. I mean there was a definite pattern, but it seemed to be more solid, and then toward the edges it was more like...
Q: Did it ever stand still?
A: Uh huh, when it was in the air it did. Of course, it was always in the air, but when it stood right above us, and I tried to start the car and I tried and I tried, and as long as that thing was above us I just couldn't get that car to go. It just didn't even want to — it just nothing. It wouldn't even turn over, just grunt a little bit and that was it …. Swell, I turned the key and it went ugh, and that was all. Then it didn't do anything. It was like a dead battery.
Q: Weil, now, when it left, did it go up or sideways or what?
A: No, it didn't go straight up. It went behind us on my side, and it went over in the field toward a farmhouse there.... It just went real smooth, and it didn't hesitate, and it didn't jerk.
Q: How long did it take to disappear?
A: It didn't right away. Finally when it left the car sort of jerked. It turned over, and it went ur-ur-ur, and then finally it turned over real good, and I finally got the car started. .. By that time I had floored the car, and I had gotten up to Cochrane by the mill there. . . . And I saw it crossing the railroad tracks, and it was going slowly down.
. . . you know, if you stay in a house at night and everything is still, there are still the noises of the living, you know, but when this thing was there, there wasn't even the noise of living. It was nothing. It was an eerie quiet. . . . Another thing I remember . . . as though I was light in weight and airy. Something like the first time you experience an airplane takeoff or drop from an air pocket. It felt like the air and everything was light and weightless.
One thing I remember --- my feet burning for some time after. When I first stepped out of the car, it felt like scalding dry heat on them. I always thought if I saw one of these things I'd just get out and walk up to it, but it didn't give any inkling of being an earthly thing, so I just stayed in the car, which was completely dead, and I couldn't go any place. I guess I was just waiting for I don't know what.
An object, glowing orange while standing still, bright red while moving, hovered over the car of a schoolteacher and his ten-year-old son on a lonely road near a small Wisconsin town for one to five minutes. Heat and weightlessness were felt.