Redding, California: Couple at mine sees egg-shaped object rise, finds traces and debris
On October 30, 1969, at 10:00 a.m., Clint and Jane Chapin saw an egg-shaped object rise noiselessly from the tailings at their mine near Redding, California, and later found a depression, unusual sand and a metallic glob.
Background
At 10:00 a.m. Clint and Jane Chapin, driving at their mine site near Redding, California, stopped for a rattlesnake and found the area oddly hot. About 60 feet away, in a flattened area of mine tailings, an egg-shaped object rose noiselessly a few feet off the ground, flew down the canyon swaying past small trees, then zoomed upward at a sharp angle and was out of sight in seconds. They found a shallow oval depression about 10 feet across and a conical pile of unusual sand; two days later they found a fist-sized metallic glob nearby. In a 1977 analysis, the sand contained pale-green glass-like bits of nearly pure silicon, and the glob was black outside and 77% copper inside, with tin and traces of silver, chromium and other metals; both were considered foreign to the mine's geology. 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.