By Francis
Ridge
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the report:
“On this night, possibily the 21st of October, the
engineer who we shall call Howard J. Albert, was sitting in his locomotive cab
on the main line track. It was cold and clear. Several box cars had been cut
loose and were parked to the south of the switch track to the warehouse. The
engine was coupled up to the rest of the cars which were being moved into
position within the warehouse. At about 3:20 AM Howard saw what looked to be a
shooting star to the west; it curved down out of the northwest. He was sitting
in his cab facing southbound. The first box car blocked his view in this
direction. The light came down in the field toward Route 23 between him and the
church. Slowly, at about the speed of a walking man, it came toward him across
the field. It was approximately 16
feet off the ground and stopped on the other side of the
tracks between four and five box car lengths away – 180 to 270 feet .
Howard picked up his radio and called out to his
conductor who was about seven or eight car lengths down the track, ‘Donald...come
up to the engine.’ Donald replied by radio and asked what was happening. Howard
answered, ‘Hey, we got a g- d— UFO up here.’ By this time the UFO had moved to
within two car lengths of the track.
The object was ‘birthday cake’ or disk shaped, about 90 feet in diameter and 45 feet high. It was
brightly lit, with banks of nine vertical ‘tubes’ separated by a dark void
space that reflected no light. Short horizonal tubes ran over the top and
bottom of these voids. The bottom of the disk could be seen; it appeared like
ceramic and was ‘the color of a common kind of knife sharpening stone...gray
with a trace of lavender.’ No windows, ladders, antenna, or markings of any
sort were observed. There was no sound associated with the disk.”
