November 23, 1957 — nr. Tonopah, NV
6:10 p.m. Fighter pilot 1st Lt. Joseph F. Long’s car engine stalls 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada. He hears a high-pitched whining noise and sees four 50-foot, domed, saucer-shaped UFOs landed on the right side of the road about 900–1,200 feet away.
They are glowing brightly and equipped with three landing gears. Long estimates they are about 10–15 feet tall. When he approaches to within 50 feet of the closest object, the hum increases in intensity and Long’s ears begin to hurt. The objects take off abruptly, retracting the landing gears. The rise about 50 feet into the air and proceed across the highway to the north at about 10 mph.
The total time of the sighting is 20 minutes. Shallow, bowl-shaped ground impressions in the shape of a triangle are found at the landing site. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1290, p. 259;
Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 267; [Case 445]
J Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO Report, 1977, pp. 182–186;
Willy Smith, On Pilots and UFOs, UNICAT Project, 1997, pp. 71–80;
Timothy Good, Need To Know, pp. 222–223, 228;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II, pp. 74–75;
Kevin Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 101–106;
NICAP, “Four Huge Saucers Land Near Car, Engine Stalls”;