Kents Hill, Maine: Teachers and students watch red ball of fire for 12 minutes
At 9:02 p.m. on March 8, 1953, physics teacher Leigh Van Etten, two other teachers and 10 students at Kents Hill School, Maine, watched a big red ball of fire move west-northwest for 12 minutes before it disappeared beyond the horizon.
Background
At 9:02 p.m. physics teacher Leigh Van Etten, two other teachers and 10 students at Kents Hill School, Maine, watched a big red ball of fire moving west-northwest. It remained in view for 12 minutes before disappearing beyond the horizon. Van Etten estimated it was about 40–60 miles away. Eberhart cites Jennie Zeidman's article "I Remember Blue Book" in the International UFO Reporter (1991). The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.