UFO case file · UFO-32284
6Mile SWPass reported light formation observation — October 1962
6Mile SWPass, Mississippi, United States
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BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Obj leaving contrail observed to explode after 4-5 seconds. COMMENTS Although the witness indicated that the sighting was not meteor origin, the description conforms to that of a bolide and no info rptd to # indicate that this was not the obj sighted. Where it remained stationary for a time, then "throwing out a stream of light from the UFO. then started moving closer and closer to his house, until finally it changed direction and ascended up out of sight briefly behind a nearby hill. It then rose at "incredible velocity" at a sharp angle, and disappeared into the sky. According to the account, the object was at one time only about 20 feet from the ground, and Trades [illegible] an inside it, a strange creature with many arms that moved about like tentacles. No Case (Information Only) 4 October 1962 Jacksonville, Florida 1952 [stamped/redacted section - text partially obscured but readable:] in Jacksonville, Florida, a number of strange lights, accompanied by power outages were reported on October 4th. Baker, who saw a ball of fire moving through a field behind their house, just at twilight. Baker said that she looked out the window and saw a round ball with a pinkish light that almost blinded her. It hovered outside her kitchen window, less than six feet away, and then passed around the house, crossed the roof then flew on. Another woman claimed that a formless glow moved right through her house, greatly scaring her and her children. No Case (Information Only) 6 October 1962 Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Cuyahoga Falls-Oct 6, 1962-6:50 PM DST - - Two high-school-age boys saw a large arti- ficial shape in a break in the clouds..... It was itself a source of light. "It looked like a plate turned upside down", said one of them.
Supporting case details:
Reported craft or object: Light Formation; Reported object in 6Mile SWPass reported light formation observation — October 1962
Recorded details
- Local time
- 0640
- Craft description
- Light Formation; Reported object in 6Mile SWPass reported light formation observation — October 1962
- Coordinate precision
- LOCALITY
- Date precision
- MONTH_ONLY