Connersville, Indiana: Two paperboys see dark disc with lights on the ground in a field
Around 5 a.m. on October 4–5, 1966, paperboys Jack Jones and Don Doe in Connersville, Indiana, watched a dark disc with flashing lights apparently on the ground in a field; three holes were later found at the spot.
Background
At 5:00 a.m. Jack Jones, delivering newspapers on John Street in Connersville, Indiana, noticed a group of lights in a field to the west and took it for a new light installation. The next day he returned with another paper carrier, Don Doe; the lights were now somewhat further north, and the boys watched a dark disc-shaped object with flashing red, green and white lights apparently on the ground about 840 feet into the field, estimated at 27 feet in diameter and 10 feet high. They heard a high-pitched whirring sound and smelled a faint odor of sulfur and tannic acid. When they heard what sounded like someone walking slowly toward them through thick weeds, they rode off on their bicycles. Some days later investigators found three holes 8 feet apart in an equilateral triangle where the object had been, 7 inches wide at the top and 1 inch at the bottom. The case was reported in the APRO Bulletin. 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.