April 14, 1971 — Callery, PA

8:00 p.m. Dennis Donaldson and Marion Lang are driving through Callery, Pennsylvania, when they notice a bright yellow-white light paralleling the car, then crossing the road ahead. Donaldson slows the car to watch and sees that the object is following the contours of nearby hills.

It then shot away from its place above the hills, across the road at the same height (about 100ft.) and out into the sky to a point where it became like a small point of light, about the brightness of the planet Jupiter as ot appeared in the night sky."

Less than a minute later the object grew in size, as it appeared to be returning to the point where it had last been in motion over the low hills.

They soon arrived at a point where the UFO had gone over the brow of the hill, and there it was again, this time hanging, or hovering, several feet above the ground. It was about 80 yards away over the downslope of a farmer's ploughed field.

Dennis pulls off onto a side road. Suddenly they now see it as a white, luminous object about 25–30 feet in diameter, like two bowls placed rim to rim, hovering a few feet off the ground about 250 feet away. The air smells unnaturally sweet and clean. The lower portion of the craft has three round portholes, and the upper portion has five rectangular windows. A mist is visible around it, illuminated by light from the object. At about 8:20 p.m., the object emits a shaft of white light from its top part.

There appeared red lights from within the top windows and the bottom ones: reddish flickering lights from within like those which one sees dancing across computer screens in Science Fiction movies.

That was Dennis’s impression . . . computer flickers

"It was Marion who first saw the figures in the windows ... humanlike forms. Along with her Dennis took about three seconds to get into the car and beat it out of there.

They were large figures and, from the distance-which was some 80 yards they must have been about 10 feet high. They stood silhouetted in two of the upper windows, and it was this that turned inquisitiveness into unadulterated fright. The UFO was still in the same position as they went out of sight of it down the dirt road."

NOTES by Investigators

Dennis & Marion returned to the site next day (April 15 1971) together with the investigators for the UFO Research Institute, They consented to the publication of the reports as, on reflection, they felt that all who are interested in the careful study of this subject would wish to know of their experience.

Sources

Jeff Knox Vancouver, Washington VIA

Robert A. Schmidt, “Callery UFO and Occupants,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1971): 3–5;

Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II, pp. 215

Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1971,