Apache Junction, Arizona: Prospector sees bright light, finds small spindle-shaped object

At night a prospector living in a cabin on a hill near Apache Junction, Arizona, was startled by a high-pitched electrical sound, and a bright light filled his cabin, hurting his eyes. After 2 minutes the light went out and the noise seemed to fade to the north. Searching the area the next morning, he found in front of his porch a "tiny spindle-shaped bright yellow object with a bright red stripe down one side, about an inch long." He kept it for five years before reporting the incident to APRO in 1970, and the Lorenzens gave it to University of Arizona metallurgical engineer Walter W. Walker for analysis. Walker found a manufactured object with an iron-manganese alloy wire at its core, surrounded by fibrous insulation and a sheath of polycrystalline calcite, and concluded that it was unusual but not extraterrestrial. 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.