September 13, 1966 — Stirum, ND
7:30 a.m. 11-year-old Randy Rotenberger, near Stirum, North Dakota, sees a silvery domed disc hover about one mile away, approach, then land within 900 feet, making a low-pitched whine. It takes off so fast it just vanishes.” An Air Force investigator finds landing indentations 7 inches deep and [possibly] radiation level of 100 microroentgens/hour. Electrical power is off in the area for about 4 hours. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1699, p. 319;
“Landing In North Dakota,” APRO Bulletin, July-August 1966, pp. 1,3;
NICAP Reporter (Gribble), Vol. 5, no. 4 (Whole No. 51, December 1966): 6-7;
Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, 1967, pp. 29-30;
Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 58–59;
Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia, pp. 336; [Case 797]
Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated With UFO Sightings (Center For UFO Studies, July 1975), Case 247, p. 43;
Fred Merritt, “UFO LANDING LEG MARKS - A COMPARATIVE STUDY,” Case 247, pp. 6, 13;
Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, 1976, pp. 7-8;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II, p. 263;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 950;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 1064;
NICAP, “Domed Object Leaves Traces”;