Peoria, Illinois: Blue sphere returns, driver's car speeds up, brakes and doors fail
At 3:30 a.m. on September 24, 1966, a man named Gaines and his girlfriend saw a large luminous blue sphere hovering low over Peoria, Illinois; on his way home the sphere returned, his car picked up speed by itself, the brakes failed and the doors would not open until the object took off.
Background
At 3:30 a.m. on September 24, 1966, a man named Gaines was driving his girlfriend home in Peoria, Illinois, when they saw a large, luminous, blue sphere hovering low in the sky. It shot off, and he dropped his girlfriend off. On the way home the blue ball returned; his car began to pick up speed, the brakes would not work, and the doors would not open. He raced on this way for a few blocks until the object took off. The entry cites the Peoria Journal-Star of September 25, 1966, and Michael D. Swords's article 'Messing Around with the Force' in IUR (2008). 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.