March 6, 1957 — Great Meadows, NJ
2:00 p.m. Hearing the family dogs barking in the backyard, Mary Martin, who lives on Shades of Death Road near Great Meadows, New Jersey, looks outside and sees the dogs looking at a white object that looks like a “huge derby hat” about 50 feet in diameter. It is rocking slightly in the air as it hovers about 10–15 feet above a field behind her house and making a low, rumbling sound. Beneath it are “streamers or lines” that “twinkle like the fragile strands” of Christmas tinsel. She watches it for a full minute until the object abruptly rises almost vertically at an “immense rate of speed.” The dogs stop barking. [Eberhart]
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Witness Letters, March 11 & 13, 1957:
Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1224, p. 241;
“Sighting Reports,” CSI Newsletter, no. 19 (May 1, 1957): 20, 23–24;
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd, The Author, 1995, pp. 65, 67-68;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 377;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 421;
J Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 151–154;
