Margaret Symmonds reported seeing four small figures on Route 129 south of Stockton while driving to Florida in July 1955. Her husband Wesley was asleep in the back of their Oldsmobile. The ledger and Loren Gross use July 2; her later notarized statement and Ted Bloecher's investigation give approximately 3:30 a.m. on July 3, during the overnight journey. The story became public after the Hopkinsville reports in August.
In her headlights she first took the shapes for animals. Closer, she described grey-green cape-like garments, slouch hats, short legs, disproportionately long arms, enormous reddish-reflective eyes and long pointed noses. One figure held a rod in both hands against the road; two others faced away. A fourth stepped aside as she swerved onto the shoulder and passed close by. Her scream woke her husband, who wanted to return, but she refused.
Bloecher and Leonard Stringfield interviewed her in 1956 and distinguished corrections to the newspaper artist's drawings from her own descriptions. No craft was seen, and their search found no related local aerial report. The ledger's trace classifications do not establish recovered physical evidence. Gross proposed a prank using dummies and a disguised person, but supplied no identified perpetrator or confession. That hypothesis and the ledger's hoax flag remain separate from a demonstrated hoax finding. The plate preserves the reported clothing and road encounter.
UFO-10260 ledger uses July 2 while later sworn statement/full investigation use the overnight July 3 date; film gives July 3 around 3 a.m., dossier approximately 3:30. Wesley woke afterward and was not a direct observer. No craft seen; owl hypothesis not independently established.
