Nr. Brooksville Landed Object And Entity case — March 2, 1965

John F. Reeves, a retired man of 65, said that on March 2, 1965, he encountered a landed object while walking in woods east of Weeki Wachee, near Brooksville. He described an iridescent 20–30-foot saucer with an outer rim, windows, four legs and an access stairway. After approaching and watching it, he said a roughly five-foot, robotlike figure walked toward him. It wore a gray-silver outfit and transparent domelike headgear; Reeves described widely spaced eyes and a pointed chin. The figure allegedly stopped about 15 feet away and aimed a small dark device that flashed several times. It then returned to the craft. Reeves said rim slats moved, the rim rotated, the legs retracted, and the object rose rapidly with a rumbling or whooshing sound. He attributed holes, footprints and two sheets bearing strange writing to the incident. The Air Force's investigation judged the landing an apparent hoax: the purported leg holes looked dug, surrounding material lacked expected disturbance, radiation readings were normal, and paper analysis found ordinary fibers. One message was reportedly decipherable by substitution. NICAP investigator Richard Hall also concluded it was a hoax. The plate is explicitly a reconstruction of the rejected claim, not an authenticated encounter. The archival file preserves disagreement from civilian proponents without converting their objections into confirmation.