10Mi Wof Oxford reported close encounter — January 1958

Weather and wind conditions at time and place of sighting: a. observed: Windy. overcast conditions b. Distance of physical evidence, such as materials and photographs: N/A UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Angle of elevation and azimuth of the object(a) when first observed: Around road c. Hughes Route #2, Virgillina, Virginia The OBJECT was sighted by an employee for Pine State Dairy, Oxford, N.C. as it started. The illuminated object came down and it landed approximately 200 hundred yards in front of him and one hundred feet off the ground. He watched the milk truck and watched the object move from his left to the right about five or six miles before it came to a halt. It then went into OXFO, N.C. and reported the illuminated object was 100 to 200 yards above the Oxford radio tower and moving towards Henderson, N.C. The officers stated that it appeared to move about one or two feet at a time, then it moved back towards them slowly while still spinning. Sergeant XXXXX, Oxford, N.C. stated that he observed the object roughly seven or eight hundred feet off the ground. XXXXX who was notified by Sergeant XXXXX of the Oxford Police, stated that he interviewed many persons on the scene who had observed the object. In the opinion of this organization, object sighted was the planet Venus.