Petersburg, Indiana: Teen driver sees noisy 16-foot sphere rise from woods and speed away

About 12:15 p.m. on November 30, 1956, Charles Malott, 17, was driving his truck north on State Highway 61 about 2.5 miles south of Petersburg, Indiana, when he heard a loud noise behind him. He pulled to the side of the road and found the noise came from a spherical object about 16 feet in diameter slowly rising from woods about 3,000 feet away. After reaching a height of 150 feet, the object became silent and took off at great speed to the northeast. The case appeared as Case 275 in CRIFO Orbit. 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.