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UFO case file · UFO-5372

Pelham disc-shaped object report — August 6, 1977

CE2United States1977-08-06

Pelham, Georgia, United States

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Case description

At 10:30 AM. on August 6, 1977 at Pelham, Georgia, United States, tom Dawson, 63, a retired car salesman, was taking a walk down to his favorite fishing pond, when suddenly a disc-shaped craft silently came into view, hovering just a few feet off the ground between nearby trees. Simultaneously, Dawson found himself unable to move, and noted that his two dogs and some twenty head of cattle seemed to suffer from the same affliction. (Source: The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, edited by Ronald D. Story. New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, N.Y. 10014. 2001. Feature submitted by researcher Billy J. Rachels. (mysterious-america.net).

Recorded details

Local time
10:30 AM.
Craft description
Tom Dawson, 63, a retired car salesman, was taking a walk down to his favorite fishing pond, when suddenly a disc-shaped craft silently came into view, hovering just a few feet off the ground between nearby trees.
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