Niagara Falls, New York: Driver sees glowing pole on saucer, engine and lights fail

At 1:30 a.m. a woman driving along the New York State Thruway near Niagara Falls saw an illuminated 50-foot pole in the center parkway ahead that seemed to be retracting and getting shorter. As she approached, her engine stopped and her headlights went out. The pole was attached to a saucer-shaped object, and she saw shadowy figures floating around it. The object rose and moved away, and she was able to start the car again. An area of snow a foot in diameter had melted dry where the pole had been. 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.