November 8, 1957🇺🇸Sighting
Close Encounter

Waterloo, Iowa: Packinghouse worker sees object with glass top and two figures over garage

At 6:00 p.m. on 8 November 1957, packinghouse worker Paul Rutledge of Waterloo, Iowa, saw an object about 30 feet long hovering above his garage, with two figures walking around inside.

Date
November 8, 1957
Location / Country
Type
Sighting

Background

At 6:00 p.m., Paul Rutledge, a packinghouse worker at Waterloo, Iowa, saw an object hovering above his garage. He could see two figures walking around inside it. The object was about 30 feet long and had a shiny bottom and a glass top. The report appeared in the Sioux City Journal on 9 November and the Waterloo Courier on 10 November 1957; Aimé Michel, Coral Lorenzen and Patrick Gross's URECAT catalogue also list the case. 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.