November 6, 1957 — Montville, Ohio
11:30 p.m. Olden J. Moore is driving home in Montville, Ohio, when he sees an object like a bright meteor split into two pieces, one of which heads straight up. The other becomes larger while its color changes from bright white to blue green. It hovers about 200 feet above a field and lands with a soft whirring sound, perhaps 500 feet away. Moore watches cautiously for 15 minutes, then approaches it. The UFO is shaped like a “covered dish,” and is about 50 feet in diameter, 15 feet high, with a cone on top about 10 feet high. It is pulsating slowly, and a haze surrounds it. Moore goes home to get another witness (his wife) but when they return the UFO is gone. Mrs. Moore reports the sighting to County Sheriff Louis Robusky the next morning, and a civil defense director, Kenneth Locke, visits the site. Locke finds high levels of radioactivity (a maximum of 150 microroentgens/hour, suggestive of an approximately one-hour radionuclide half-life or less), two perfectly formed holes six inches in diameter, and unusual footprints that come from nowhere and go nowhere. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Sheriffs Report;
“Montville UFO Tops Bumper Crop of Rural Saucers”, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov. 22, 1957;
Williamson, R.S. Civil Defense Minutes of Chardon Meeting to Interview Mr. Olden Moore on UFO Sightings (n.d., circa November 1957);
“Geiger Counter Registers 150 Microroentgens at Site of Saucer Landing.” The A.P.R.O. Bulletin (January 1958): 1, 8;
Aimé Michel, “The 1957 Saucer Wave in the United States.” Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery. pp. 252-255;
C.W. Fitch, “The Olden Moore Story.” Saucer News 10, no. 2 (June 1963): 10–14;
Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence. pp. 114,169-170;
Gordon Lore, Strange Effects From UFOs - A NICAP Special Report, p. 68;
Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 264-265; [Case 433]
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1279, p.257;
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 6th, The Author, 1997, pp. 79-81;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., pp. 772–773, 950;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., pp. 853–854, 1064;
Mike Swords Files, 63C;
Center for UFO Studies, [case files]; [121pages]
[BB Files contain Maj Robert Friend interview with Moore]
http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/63C.pdf
NICAP, “Olden Moore Case / Close Encounter”;