Bethel, Alaska: Woman hears whine, sees small shiny disc skim tundra and vanish
Early on 3 September 1976, a woman in Bethel, Alaska, heard a high-pitched whine and saw a small white disc with a rotating shiny center move just above the tundra and seemingly disappear into the ground.
Background
In the early morning, a witness in Bethel, Alaska, heard a high-pitched whine and looked out at the tundra, where a small white object like a beach ball, 2.5–3 inches across, seemed to be moving just above the ground. After a while it tilted so that she could see it was a disc with a rotating “platinum-shiny” area in the middle. The object arced upward, then back down, and seemed to disappear into the ground, whereupon the whine stopped. She found no ground markings. The case comes from the Timmerman files described by Michael D. Swords. 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.