Sam Coley family at Red Springs — December 1951

One evening in December 1951, twelve-year-old James Coley called his father Sam and seventeen-year-old sister Mabel outside their Red Springs, North Carolina, home. They reportedly watched an object resembling two saucers joined rim to rim, with a raised cabin in the centre. The early catalogue gives dusk in its narrative but 9 p.m. in its heading; no exact December day is established. The object reportedly stopped about six feet above the ground, roughly three hundred yards away. It was nearly silent apart from a faint purring or whistling sound, and light came from the cabin windows rather than the entire exterior. The family said a humanlike figure was visible inside. After approximately ten minutes it departed extremely quickly. HUMCAT cites the Lumberton Robesonian of August 7, 1952, and names the state defence director and local police chief as investigators. Preston Dennett's later presentation also recounts Jane Ware's claimed participation in a subsequent return sighting with officials, including ground marks and physical symptoms. Those additions belong to a separate evidentiary layer and are not silently inserted into the first family observation. The early account provides no detailed occupant anatomy, and official interest does not itself establish the object's origin.