Tuesday 3 September 2019

UFO Public TV Discussion Programme:
“Theater for Ideas - Roach family UFO Sighting”


By Terry Doran (producer, host), 1976
(Unknown U.S. TV channel)

Source: Internet Archive (archive.org), San Francisco, California

Three members of the Roach family recount a UFO sighting that occurred in Arcola, Indiana (located just to the west of Fort Wayne), in June or July 1965, at around 9:00 p.m.

The discussion about when the UFO incident occurred can be found at 10:30.

The cylindrical shaped, extremely large UFO (larger than an airliner) had windows that were illuminated from the inside, a very bright white headlight on the bottom and bright red and green lights on top. All the lights were steady. The unknown object manoeuvred in the same general area for a long time.

The family and at least one of their neighbours called the authorities (the airport and sheriff) to find out if there was aircraft activity in the area at the time. There was no aircraft activity in the area during the time the UFO was sighted, according to the authorities.

NOTE: At least one of the other “Theater for Ideas” TV discussion programmes was aired on WANE-TV (Fort Wayne, Indiana), according to archive.org.


Wikipedia article: “Arcola, Indiana”:









The Roach family
(Terry Doran/archive.org/gstatic.com image)


















Satellite photo of Fort Wayne, Indiana (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)