Wallingford, Kentucky: Mail carrier sees glowing object rise, a scorched ring is found
At 2:00 a.m. on 7 September 1959, rural mail carrier Walter E. Ogden saw a glowing pumpkin-shaped object above the trees in his pasture at Wallingford, Kentucky; six days later a 12-foot ring of scorched earth was found there, and Air Force investigators declared it a hoax.
Background
Rural mail carrier Walter E. Ogden saw a glowing, pumpkin-shaped object about 40 feet above the trees in his pasture at Wallingford, Kentucky. After a minute a bluish blaze of fire came from the bottom and it rose about 500 feet, leaving a circular smoke ring, then zoomed away horizontally. Six days later a 12-foot depressed ring of scorched earth was discovered on the spot, along with a kerosene smell. Air Force investigators showed up and declared it a hoax. 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.