Kettering, Tasm being encounter — February 1976

In February 1976, a thirty-nine-year-old Kettering resident reportedly awoke around one in the morning when his child cried. He then saw a bright descent toward Little Oyster Cove. Suspecting an aircraft accident, he went outside in his dressing gown and approached a rise overlooking the shore. About twenty-five meters below, he described a ribbed, aluminium-looking dome with bright white-to-yellow windows, a projecting ledge and a short vertical base. Through three or four windows he saw a tall cylindrical fixture and motionless grey forms resembling car-seat backs with headrests. He did not clearly identify living occupants. A motorlike hum increased as the object rose and accelerated eastward; the episode lasted approximately six or seven minutes. The next morning he found apparently scorched grass where it had rested. When TUFOIC investigated in April 1977, the roughly six-meter area had greener, tougher growth. Testing found no significant thermoluminescence difference between inside and outside soil samples. Analyst Geoff Stevens concluded that substantial soil heating and large ionizing-radiation doses did not explain the vegetation changes. These negative findings constrain the reported trace, while leaving the witness’s object unidentified.