26 November 1956
(The Austin Daily Herald, Austin , Minnesota
Source: ufonewspaper.blogspot.com
The whole article:
“Two state employes, including a state highway motor
patrolman, early Sunday (25 November 1956) saw a strange object in the sky and
said firmly, ‘we know it wasn’t a plane.’
Patrolman Don Kelm and Jack Peters, dispatcher for the
state police radio system, said they got within a block of the thing and
attempted to take a picture of it.
The ‘saucer’ or whatever it may have been, was seen at
12:43 a.m. Sunday in a gully about 23 miles east of Pierre
The two estimated that the bright red object was
hovering about 50 to 100
feet above the ground. They watched it for more than a
half hour.
‘It was deep red in color, changed to light red as it
rose to an altitude of about 7,000
feet ,’ Kelm and Peters said.
The two were looking for a stolen pickup truck when
they spotted the object.
They reported they watched the thing for awhile and
then started back to Pierre Fort
Pierre
‘It was shaped like half an egg shell with the bottom
round,’ Peters said.
‘It appeared like someone was shining a red light on a
mirror. There was enough light from it to make the center lines of the highway
gleam.’
Kelm said the object appeared about the size of an
‘ordinary car.’
Peters said he took several pictures of the object,
using a fence post to steady the camera. The negative, developed in the state
law enforcement laboratory, appeared to show a dot of light in the dark. There
was no rectangular shape as the men reported the object appeared to have to the
naked eye.
Kelm and Peters said there was no sound from the
object.
At Rapid City , it was
reported radar screens had picked up a strange object in the vicinity of Hot Springs Pierre
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