January 23, 1965 — Lightfoot, N. of Williamsburg, VA
8:40 a.m. Two separate cars driving in different direction stall out near the intersection of US Hwy 60 and State Route 614 in Lightfoot, Virginia. One of the drivers, Thomas F. Mains, sees a lightbulb- or mushroom-shaped object 75–80 feet tall and 10–25 feet wide, hovering over nearby field about 4 feet off the ground. It is metallic gray, with red-orange and blue lights and is making a vacuum cleaner noise. It suddenly accelerates horizontally to the west against the wind and disappears. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
“UFO Reported Seen near Williamsburg,” Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, January 24, 1965, p. 1;
“Langley Team Investigating UFO, But Report Unlikely,” Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, January 26, 1965, p. 3;
“Youngster Show Little Concern Abort Reported UFO Sightings,” Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, January 31, 1965, p. 10D;
FSIC Bulletin 2, No. 1; [From Blue Book file]
Saucer News 12, No. 1 (March 1965): 22;
Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, Case 633, pp. 304-305;
J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 177-178;
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalog v1.30, Case 1597, p. 304;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, pp. 21, 249, 314;
List of cases NICAP sent the Condon Project:
NICAP, “UFO Hovering over Field Stalls Cars”;