Girard, Kansas: Truck driver Jack Sade sees orange disc land on the highway ahead
At 2:00 a.m. on May 18, 1959, truck driver Jack Sade near Girard, Kansas, saw an orange, disc-shaped object descend and land on the highway about 200 feet ahead of him before lifting off again.
Background
At 2:00 a.m. truck driver Jack Sade saw an orange, disc-shaped object in the sky and stopped his truck near Girard, Kansas. The object descended and landed on the highway about 200 feet in front of him, covering both lanes and standing roughly 20 feet high. It remained there for a minute or two, then changed color from orange to red and lifted back into the sky. Eberhart cites Jim Davis's column in the Parsons (Kansas) Sun of May 19, 1959, and Loren E. Gross's history of April–June 1959. 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.