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Today in UFO History - UFO Hovering Over Field Stalls Cars
January 23,1965 — Lightfoot, N. of Williamsburg, VA
1/8:40 a.m. Two separate cars driving in different direction stall out near the intersection of US Hwy 60 and State Route 614 in

2/Lightfoot, Virginia. One of the drivers, Thomas F. Mains, sees a lightbulb- or mushroom-shaped object 75–80 feet tall and 10–25 feet wide, hovering over nearby field about 4 feet off the ground. It is metallic gray, with red-orange and blue lights and is making a vacuum cleaner

3/ noise. It suddenly accelerates horizontally to the west against the wind and disappears. [Eberhart]

Sources:
Richmond Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA), January 24, 1965, pg. 1;
Daily Press (Newport News, VA), January 26, 1965, pg. 3;

Sources cont.:
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalog v1.30, Case 1597, p. 304;
Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, Case 633, p. 304-305;
FSIC Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 1; [From Blue Book file]
Saucer News, Vol. 12, No. 1 (March 1965); [From Blue Book file]

NICAP sent a list of Blue Book unknowns to the Condon project for suggested investigation

NICAP Letter to Richard Hall re: this case.

Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 21, 249, 314;

J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pg. 177-8;

NICAP, “UFO Hovering over Field Stalls Cars”;
nicap.org/650123williams…