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20 Aug 1955 - Kenora, Ontario, Canada
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20 August 1955 22:45
Kenora, Ontario, Canada
A small, luminous saucer-shaped object is seen by the president of a small Canadian air service and his night watchman
A hovering flying disc was observed. One silver saucer, about 5 feet across, around 300 feet away, was observed in cloudy weather by two experienced male witnesses at a lake for four minutes. No sound was heard.
Hynek quotes the descriptions provided by the president of a small Canadian air service and his night watchman:
It was shaped like two saucers with their open tops touching, one above the other. . . . The entire object was a beautiful silvery white color and appeared to send out rays from its surface, making the object appear like a light on a foggy night…It seemed to sparkle as if some electric force or very hot air was flowing from all the surfaces. . . . The machine, after its first stop, slid sideways for a distance of 50 feet and stopped again. Its speed was not faster than four miles per hour. After about a minute or two we could see it accelerate so fast it disappeared like a shrinking star in three seconds from a standing start. Its direction was the same as it came, from the west. Its climbing angle would be about 40 degrees. I reported this sighting to the Canadian government. . . . The color was a silvery white. I can't explain the color. I've never seen a color like it. . . . It was bright, but it did not have a glare. It looked more like a fluorescent glow. ... It was a continuous sparkle like a diamond. It was a bright, beautiful looking thing.
…an object streaking toward us from the west. It was saucer-shaped and swung and dipped around some low cloud. It kept in the clear and did not enter any of the low scud drifting across the sky. It tilted on its side about 600 feet from us, then straightened out with the flat side parallel with the ground. ... It stopped dead still in front of us, 40 feet above the surface of the lake and about 75 yards from us, But distance is hard to judge at night when you are looking at a bright object. No sound came from it, and we could detect no odor. . . . The thing appeared to me to be only four or five feet across and eight to ten inches thick.
Hynek rating: CE1: Close Encounters of the First Kind
Vallee rating: CE1: UFO comes within 500 feet of the witness, but no after effects are suffered by the witness or the surrounding area.
Vallee reliability rating: BAA:
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