Case description
In the early hours of November 25, 1964, a woman near New Berlin, New York, reportedly saw a brilliant object descend with a droning sound. Her dog was said to be too frightened to leave the house. After the light came down on a distant hill, she watched through binoculars and saw tall, apparently human figures working beneath a craft whose underside was illuminated. Accounts use different forms of the witness's name, including Marianne Hatzonbuhler and Kathy Hatzenbuhler.
A second object reportedly landed slightly uphill. The combined group, estimated at roughly ten to twelve figures in dark, close-fitting suits, appeared to be repairing the first machine. Published descriptions include boxes, cables, hand tools and a bulky component removed from its underside. A later retelling also identifies the woman's mother-in-law as an observer. The activity reportedly continued for several hours, ending when the two objects departed around five in the morning.
The following day, two triangular arrangements of depressions were said to have been found on the hill. HUMCAT lists conical impressions of varying depths, about twenty paces between the two arrangements. Those reported marks belong to the case history; they are not by themselves proof of the objects' origin.
Ted Bloecher and Berthold Schwarz investigated the report, which appeared in a series of Flying Saucer Review articles and Skylook. Timing differs between the compressed ledger and fuller catalogues. The unusual repair interpretation depends on distant visual observations and later testimony, not a close inspection of the machinery or identification of its crew.
