April 17, 1967 — Jefferson City, MO
9:00 p.m. School principal John L. Metz and three teachers in separate cars are driving home in Jefferson City, Missouri, and see a 350–400 foot, bluish-white, WWI-helmet–shaped object come over the Missouri River bluff and move directly above their cars, bathing them in intense light. Metz observes it through 8x binoculars. The object hovers above power lines for about 10 minutes then heads toward the airport. Two smaller objects emerge from its base; they are disc- or helmet-shaped and the size of a DC-3. Metz drives to the airport on Highway 94 and finds two more witnesses. Jefferson City Memorial Airport employees watch a flat, circular, star-like orange light flashing an intermittent red-blue through a 30x 40mm telescope around 9:40–10:08 p.m. The Ozark Airliner Flight 319 crew sees two large round objects moving in various directions below their airplane during its final landing approach. [Eberhart]
Transcript of Hynek/Metz Phonecall;
Letter From Donald H. Menzel to Hector Quintanilla;
Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1737, p. 324;
J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 110–111;
