Willoughby, Ohio: Store owner sees lighted object beam down over his garage, then a dome
At 8:45 p.m. on 1 August 1955, radio and TV store owner William M. Sheneman of Willoughby, Ohio, saw an object with red and green lights shine two brilliant beams on the ground and pass 50–100 feet over his garage; he and his wife then watched a lighted dome hover for five minutes.
Background
At 8:45 p.m. William M. Sheneman, owner of a radio and TV store in Willoughby, Ohio, walked across the street to check his mailbox when he saw a red light about 1,000 feet away coming at him at a right angle; he thought it was a plane about to crash. The ground was then illuminated by two brilliant lights aimed directly from the object, and he ran back into the house as it moved over his garage about 50–100 feet in the air, showing a big red light at the front and a green light at the rear. All the lights then turned off and the object moved away over the woods. He and his wife could now see the outline of a dome lit up with tiny lights inside, which hovered for 5 minutes and then moved away. Eberhart cites The UFO Evidence, Olsen, Davis and Bloecher's Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955 (CUFOS, 1978), Gross and Clark. 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.