Edina, MO being encounter — January 8, 1969

Adeline Davis placed her experience during the first or second week of January 1969 at Edina, Missouri; she could not remember the day. Caring for an ill daughter, she had been sleeping fitfully when she woke and looked through a window. A green object hovered very close to the house. She washed her face to reassure herself she was awake, then returned to find it still there. The object had blue-tinted windows, landing legs beneath it and an interior green panel that obscured the opposite windows. Through the near window she watched a human-looking occupant working below the sill. His dark clothing included an army-style cap, a jacket with a small upright scalloped collar and a scarf. She especially noticed widely spaced, slanting eyes with indistinct pupils. He looked up with an apparently surprised, open-mouthed expression, returned to his task, and later raised his hands in succession. Davis said the object backed away, illuminated a cedar tree with a white underside beam, turned and disappeared behind the house. She associated its presence with a stopped furnace fan and electric clocks subsequently about twenty minutes slow. Investigators Allen Benz and Ted Phillips later interviewed her; the detailed account appeared in APRO-related publications and Lorenzen’s book. Her initially friendly impression and next-day nervousness are personal reactions, not evidence of an abduction. The catalogue’s precise January 8 date exceeds her stated recollection.