Kettering entity encounter — February 25, 1976

A 39-year-old Kettering resident reportedly noticed an unusual light around 1 a.m. one night in late February 1976 while attending to his crying child. He initially thought an aircraft was descending toward Little Oyster Cove. Still wearing a dressing gown, he crossed the area opposite his house and reached a rise overlooking a brightly illuminated, domelike object about 25 meters away. The fuller account describes an aluminumlike, ribbed exterior and three or four windows emitting white-to-yellow light. Inside were a tall cylinder, compared with a ship's compass mounting, and stationary gray forms resembling the backs of car seats with headrests. These have sometimes become definite beings in later summaries, although the original comparison leaves their identity uncertain. A humming sound increased as the object rose and departed eastward. The experience reportedly lasted six or seven minutes. The witness later noticed a circular patch of altered grass. When TUFOIC visited in April 1977, greener regrowth distinguished the area. Soil analysis found no significant inside/outside thermoluminescence difference and did not support substantial heating or a large ionizing-radiation dose. Those results constrain the trace claim rather than proving a propulsion system. The imported February 25 date is more specific than the fuller late-February account. The plate therefore uses February 1976 and shows ambiguous seatlike forms through the windows, without inventing clearly observed aliens.