Webster City, IA being encounter — July 1919

In a retrospective account, an unnamed brother and sister described an encounter near Webster City, Iowa, in July 1919. Around 11 a.m. they heard chirping like feeding sparrows near a creek. Approximately 75 feet away they found a brown-green object beneath a tree. It stood on three supports and had a lowered door forming steps; the overall hull geometry was not precisely recorded. Two figures were described as humanlike and dressed in brown-green clothing. The taller figure remained at the doorway and seemed displeased when the shorter one ran to the creek with a small tin, roughly the size of a soup can. The shorter figure filled it with water, returned, and was helped aboard. The door reportedly shut with a metallic clang. The object rose rapidly, breaking branches above it, then departed over a hill with its supports still extended and without an engine sound. The story survives in retrospective UFO literature, without a located 1919 news report. Patrick Gross traces its later circulation and weak documentation: the children are unnamed, and the claimed ground marks lack a documented contemporary examination. The reconstruction follows the reported two human-looking figures; it does not establish that the event occurred.