Location. Near Killdeer, North Dakota

Date: summer 1932 Time: afternoon

Leo Dworshak and his younger brother Mike had climbed up to a grassy hilltop in the hot summer sun. Mike immediately spotted a strange object down in the valley just below them. “Leo look,” he whispered in German, as they all spoke German in their house. He was pointing his finger like he would point out a pheasant or a jack rabbit. It was a huge round thing, as big as their barn at least. They just stood there gaping at it and began excitedly discussing what it was doing down there and trying their best to understand just what they were seeing. They were no strangers to machinery, from steam engines to trucks and farm equipment of every description.

This building or machine was completely unlike anything they had ever seen or heard of before. It was silvery, and although it was probably more than half a mile away, they could tell it was certainly as big as their barn, maybe even bigger. It appeared to be perfectly round, not round like a baseball, unless you could kind of flatten a baseball a little bit and put kind of a bump or blister on the top, but round more like a silver dollar. Leo counted many different colors of light on it that came from a band around the edge. He thought it must be a machine because it was rotating in a complicated way. The flashing colored lights formed an outer shell, like a band or belt that went completely around it at the widest point and was turning one way. The inner shell seemed to be standing still or perhaps running the other way. The colored lights came only from the rotating shell or belt. Unlike every other large machine they had ever seen in operation, it was totally silent and produced no cloud of exhaust fumes or smoke. It surely wasn’t a steam machine.

They stood there on the hilltop for some time, just watching the incredible machine flashing its lights and rotating in its strange and amazing way. Then they decided to try to get closer for a better look. As they began to walk downhill toward the machine, they were still more amazed to find their way blocked by an invisible force that would not let them get any closer. It was as if they were bumping up against an invisible fence or wall. They encountered that invisible “something” again and again, sliding to one side and the other against its unyielding surface. Finally they gave up their efforts to approach it and just sat on the hillside next to the barrier, watching the machine and debating the situation. This was unlike any machine their father or the elevator man or anybody else had ever talked about. They tried to approach it over and over again. They even went back over the top of the hill, around the side, and came up on it from a different direction, but found they could not get closer by any route. Finally they just sat back down and watched. Before too long, they saw the curious rotation slow and eventually stop, and the colorful lights stopped blinking at the edge of the machine. They also noticed that the outer shell now had an opening. He called it a door, but it was nothing like a barn door or a house door that hinged out and away from the building. It had somehow opened up in the side of the machine. This unusual door just opened up. Out if came three people who walked down a sort of ramp that, just as miraculously, sprouted out of the side of the machine. They stood in the dry weeds beside their enormous, silvery machine. It had to be a mechanical thing because it looked so much like polished metal.

Leo and Mike watched the distant figures very closely and saw that they were all wearing the same type and color of suit or coverall. These people walked only a short distance away from the machine and moved around near it. They would look up at the sky, as if they were thankful and pleased with the weather. Leo and Mike excitedly talked to each other about why they had brought the machine to this remote valley. They had hiked through the valley before and there was no sign of any machine. There was no other movement down in the valley except these people walking around. They watched them closely, but they were too far away from them to see much detail. They returned to the machine and closed the door, and the ramp just went away again. The brothers regretted that they didn’t have a chance to clearly see how they looked or hear how they talked. Leo wanted to stay, but he knew they had to leave. They decided and planted at that moment to return at the first opportunity tomorrow to see if the men would come out of the machine again. It was a mile and a half walk from their house, but they wanted very much to study these people and their huge, silvery spinning light machine more closely. However, they finally had to leave on the run for home. They knew their mom would be worried and angry if they were late for dinner.

The following day, Mike and Leo hiked directly back to the same spot where they first saw the huge, round lighted machine. But they found no trace of it. They couldn’t figure out how the men had “moved” the machine. (They would encounter the men and the machine two weeks later).

HC addendum

Source: Leo Dworshak, UFOs Are with Us – Take My Word, pp. 5-7 Type: B