6/15/1958: Mountain View, MO, USA

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Occurred : 6/15/1958 (Entered as : 1960's) Reported: 11/5/2002 10:39:34 AM 10:39 Posted: 11/9/2002 Location: Mountain View, MO Shape: Other Duration: 2 hours ? Characteristics: There were lights on the object
Mountain View, Mo. 1960's Lights with tails. >I thought you might like this. > >When I was about 10 (I'm 38 now), my grandmother used to tell me >about some UFO's her and grandpa used to watch. I guess around 1950 >to 1960, my grandmother lived in Mountain View, Missouri. She said >they would go out at night and sit on the patio. They would look out >above the outhouse and watch these strange lights. she said they had >two lights side by side, with a third light like a tail (her >description reminded me of a manta ray). She said that around a >certain time of night, they would see one "zip" over and stop high >above the outhouse. Soon after, another one would come "zooming" up >next to it. The two UFO's would sit there for a few seconds next to >each other. Then all of a sudden, one would shoot off one way, then >the other would shoot off the other way. After a few minutes, one >would "zip" back to the same place then the other one would show up. >She said it looked like they would sit there and talk, then "zoom" >off, then come back and start over again.This occurred weekly, if >not nightly . I've always wondered if anyone else had heard about >this in Missouri. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. We have assigned a date in late 1950's, so that the report sorts to that era. PD))

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 6/15/1958 (Entered as : 1960's)
Reported: 11/5/2002 10:39:34 AM 10:39
Posted: 11/9/2002
Location: Mountain View, MO
Shape: Other
Duration: 2 hours ?
Characteristics: There were lights on the object

Mountain View, Mo. 1960's Lights with tails.

>I thought you might like this.

> >When I was about 10 (I'm 38 now), my grandmother used to tell me >about some UFO's her and grandpa used to watch. I guess around 1950 >to 1960, my grandmother lived in Mountain View, Missouri. She said >they would go out at night and sit on the patio. They would look out >above the outhouse and watch these strange lights. she said they had >two lights side by side, with a third light like a tail (her >description reminded me of a manta ray). She said that around a >certain time of night, they would see one "zip" over and stop high >above the outhouse. Soon after, another one would come "zooming" up >next to it. The two UFO's would sit there for a few seconds next to >each other. Then all of a sudden, one would shoot off one way, then >the other would shoot off the other way. After a few minutes, one >would "zip" back to the same place then the other one would show up.

>She said it looked like they would sit there and talk, then "zoom" >off, then come back and start over again.This occurred weekly, if >not nightly . I've always wondered if anyone else had heard about >this in Missouri.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. We have assigned a date in late 1950's, so that the report sorts to that era. PD))