Winsted, Connecticut: Counselor and 13 boys at Camp Delaware see silvery hovering object

At 3:45 p.m. adult counselor Ira Leifer and 13 teenage boys were resting from a hike in the woods at Camp Delaware (now Greenwood Trails) west of Winsted, Connecticut, when they heard a high-pitched whine. Through a clearing in the trees they saw a silvery, flat-bottomed object 15–25 feet in diameter, surrounded by a purple haze, with a red glow on top, hovering at a steep angle. After 15–25 seconds the whine returned, and the object took off and was lost to sight in a second or two. The Winsted Evening Citizen reported the sighting on July 30, 1976, and the International UFO Reporter described it as a daylight close encounter with 14 witnesses. 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.