The bright light came down, at a 45-degree angle, to the height of nearby telephone wires, moved horizontally across the farmyard, and was last seen over a small silo. In size it appeared as large as or larger than the full moon. The circular craft had no obvious protrusions or mechanical features and was described as having "numerous lights around the outside.... The center of the craft is what has me puzzled, as either it or the whole ship was rotating in a counterclockwise direction. It was also very shiny in the middle and very, very bright".

Hynek quotes the interview with the witnesses:

Q. Did you ever see anything like it before?

A: No. I never did.

Q: What impressed you most about it?

A: The brightness of it.

Q: What do you think it was?

A: I don't know what it was. It scared me at first.

Q: Do you think it could have been a balloon or something like that?

A: No, it was not a balloon or nothing like that. . . . We thought it was helicopters at first from the Quentin Air Force Base, so we called, but they said there were no helicopters up then.

Q: Did they say they had anything on radar?

A: No, they said there were no airplanes or nothing out that night.

Q: Did it have any effect on the animals?

A: Well, the dogs started barking. I didn't notice anything about the cows, but the dogs started barking.

Q: Well, do you think they were barking at it or something else?

A: 1 don't know, but that was the only thing around to bark at.

Q: You don't know of anyone else who saw it that night?

A: No, I guess there weren't many people up at four o'clock in the morning.

Q: How come you two were up so early?

A; We were hauling hay.

Q; How did you first happen to see it?

A: He happened to see it first and he came back, and he was scared. I didn't know what was going on.

Q: Did he look scared?

A: Yeah, he was scared. He was real scared. That's the reason I went out there, to see what he was scared about.

Q: How come you never saw it leave?

A: Well, I thought it was going to crash, and I headed back into the barn too.

Q: Oh, I see. So both of you headed into the barn?

A: Well, yes sir, that's right.

Q: I don't blame you at all. I probably would have been scared too. What color was it?

A: Well, it was just luminous white.

Q: What impressed you most about the whole thing?

A: Well, I guess the feet that it wasn't an airplane. It was some other object.

Q: Have you ever seen anything like this before?

A: Never have.

Q: Would you want to?

A: Now that it happened, I would sort of like to have a picture just to prove that I saw it. A lot of people don't believe me.

Q: How long would you say you were frightened by the thing?

A; Well, it really shook us up for about two weeks. I'd been having trouble getting to sleep. I believe in them now; I didn't before . .. until I saw it.

Q: Have you done much reading about UFOs?

A: I have since then. And I'm going to take some astronomy, here in college.

Q: We're doing our best to try to find out what this is all about.

A: Well, I tell you what, the way these guys acted out here, I thought maybe they had something they weren't telling us about.

Q: You mean the guys from the air force?

A: Yeah.

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