Portglenone, Northern Ireland: Black object hurtles into oak tree and splits it in two

At 3:30 p.m. on December 28, 1958, Joseph Bennett, a farmer in Portglenone, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, was out walking when he heard a noise like a rush of wind. A black object 7 feet across came hurtling through the air about 20 feet above the ground from the direction of Lough Neagh, moving from south to northwest. It crashed into an oak tree, splitting it in two at a height of 10 feet, then ascended and disappeared within seconds. The tree showed no burn or scorch marks. According to Belfast Telegraph headlines cited in the entry, a Q.U.B. scientist examined the "flying axe", and forestry experts later called it a whirlwind. 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.