A rationale, sober, married woman with a child and a background in science was preparing for bed on 1 Nov. 1957 in Huntingdon, West Virginia. Her small daughter was already asleep. A sudden noise had her checking the house and then outside.
Stepping out into the darkness on a calm evening she saw "something" appeared to be resting on the roofline of her house. It appeared to be a metallic sphere with the top half slide to the side and sitting off center. There was a faint beeping coming from the object. The bottom half appeared to be rotating or vibrating and a small red steady light was visible in the lower half on one side. The top half was dark as if it had no power to it.
Standing there in her house dress, the object lifted straight up - there was an updraft that caused her dress to billow and leaves and twigs to move about- and the object quickly disappeared (she estimated in about a minute).
The next day she found a venetian window blind had crashed to the attic floor and believed that might have been the initial noise she heard. Had the vibration she thought she had observed shaken it loose? She asked neighbors and although some had heard a "commotion" none had gone out to investigate. She appeared to be the only witness of this odd event.
She reported it via a "spot interview" with officials. The 5 page file contains her detailed rendering of what she had observed and the whole event as "Prob Unreliable Observer."
Here is her rendering, she had taken her original rough sketch and created a better one to give to authorities.
The "small red light" will show up in other reports even into the 1960 at Storm Lake, Iowa. In 1957, October and November will be busy days as similar objects are reported from across the globe. There are stories of great heat when an object went over head, of large sized objects traveling at a high speed, and in almost every report is someone pushing the "balloon" theory even in the face of witness facts that do not agree.
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