Rio del Mar, California: Small cigar-shaped object lands in Monterey Bay, lights up

At 11:30 p.m. students Kevin Smith and Jill Harper were walking along Hidden Beach in Rio del Mar, California, when a cigar-shaped object 4 feet long and 10 inches wide passed about 30 feet above them, moving southwest over the water. It landed in Monterey Bay without a splash. As it bobbed about, a light came on in its interior; when Smith yelled at it, the light went out. The IUR/Frontiers of Science reported the case in July/August 1980, and Eberhart also cites Dolan's USO2. 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.