March 27, 1966 — btw Salem and Ash Flat, AK
8:00 p.m. A man driving on U.S. Highway 62 between Salem and Ash Flat, Arkansas, encounters a large, lighted object only 3 feet above the road on a hilltop. The object is oval-shaped, 20 feet long, dark gray, and has about 30 lights around its perimeter. As it flies off, his car engine and headlights die. The driver has to replace the light bulbs in his headlights after the incident. Fifteen reels of magnetic tape in the car have been apparently ruined as a result of magnetic erasure. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1665, p. 324;
Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): 19;
Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 325; [Case 739]
