Waverly, IA being encounter — August 1965

A fourteen-year-old identified as D. G. in the original APRO report was sitting outside with his father and sister near Waverly, Iowa, when they heard a high-pitched whine and watched a polished aluminium-coloured object descend behind a hill. APRO dates it to late August 1965 at about 3 or 4 p.m.; later catalogues name David Gibson and assign August 13, with other times also appearing. The object resembled two saucers joined together. The boy approached the hill. From roughly 160 yards he briefly saw what looked like a small bald-headed being or object behind a tree. He stumbled, looked down and found it gone when he looked up again. A few minutes later a blur, rushing sound and rapid vertical ascent marked the object's departure. At the tree he found no footprints. In an old quarry beyond the hill, he reported a fifteen-to-twenty-foot circle of charred grass and three shallow rectangular indentations. The boy and his father said their attempts to report it to police met with ridicule. APRO's 1975 article identifies Kevin Randle as an interviewer and cautions that the craft's estimated size may have been inferred from the burned circle. The father's and sister's object observation does not corroborate the boy's closer figure or marks. Later burned-glass transcriptions conflict with APRO's explicit grass description. The plate combines successive phases and retains a month-only date.