Westhope, North Dakota: Police chief sees helmet-shaped disc shine a beam onto the road

At 10:10 p.m., Police Chief Lavern Janzen was driving west of Westhope, North Dakota, when the interior of his car suddenly lit up. Looking up, he saw a disc shaped like a World War I helmet pass overhead and stop about 700 feet ahead, some 100 feet in the air; it had a glowing blue-green dome and a bright white body with a revolving red band and wobbled back and forth while hovering. At one point it emitted a 10-foot-diameter beam of light onto the road. Janzen got out of the car but was afraid to approach closer, and he smelled an odor like burned rubber. After 15 minutes the object ascended at a 60° angle and flew out of sight to the south. 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.