Location. Paris, Illinois

Date: March 9 1955 Time: 17:50

On this date Eugene Metcalfe was watching a jet plane flying toward him when, all at once and without warning, this strange craft came swooping in behind the plane and “scooped” it out of the sky right before his eyes. This craft had an opening or door in his line of vision and next to the plane. After it had abducted the plane it stood still, and the opening closed. Then it went in an up and down motion for about 30 seconds, then quickly disappeared. While it was churning up and down Metcalfe could see vapor or smoke coming from what looked like round portholes or windows on the bottom of this craft. This happened at approximately 5:50 p.m.

This craft was shaped like the top of an ordinary call bell and was large enough to carry several planes the size of the one it had captured. This all took place, (you might say) in Metcalfe’s own backyard and was so close he could plainly see both craft and plane. The plane was a light jet bomber and was reported missing during a news broadcast in the St. Louis area. This plane was not found or accounted for. Sometime later, an identical craft followed three jet planes but did not molest them.

According to Metcalfe these strange aircraft are, without a doubt, the fastest things he has ever seen. It traveled in a few seconds, the same distance which took the jet planes minutes to travel. According to Metcalfe, for the last three years, possibly longer, he has witnessed a very strange airborne craft in the sky in the vicinity of Paris, Illinois. This strange object would just hang in the southwestern sky, and after a short stay it would speed off and disappear.

HC addendum

Source: John A. Keel, “Our Haunted Planet” Citing eyewitness report in Robert Gribble’s “Flying Saucer Review” January 1956 pp. 6-7 Type: G Anecdotal story, but apparently a permanent abduction.