San Jose, California: Teacher and neighbors see disc hover overhead, dropping red sparks

At 9:23 p.m. science teacher Ed Handley was washing his car in his driveway in San Jose when he saw a light moving slowly against the darkening southwestern sky. It suddenly made a right-angle turn and headed toward him, emitting a light beam, took about 10 minutes to reach him and stopped about 100 feet overhead. Handley's mother and five members of a neighboring family also saw the object: disc-shaped, about 90 feet in diameter, with a cabin-like structure on top, a white beam pointing outward and moving up and down in a small arc, an orange glow around its edges and red sparks dropping from the underside that disappeared after falling about 6 feet. It hovered about 5 minutes, then oscillated and shot straight up, shrinking to a point of light and vanishing within seconds. Eberhart cites Slava Mach and Ross Redeker in the MUFON UFO Journal (1978) and NICAP's The UFO Evidence II. 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.