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6/2/64 - Mrs Frank Smith and grandson, Hobbs, NM, 4:00 PM
| Report Summary | "a black object with flames... heard a sound similar to that of a bullet."[footnote 1] "The Frank Smiths operate a laundry [in Hobbs, NM], and their grandson, Charles Keith Davis quite often stayed with his grandmother while his mother was working. On this particular afternoon, the boy was standing outside the boiler room waiting for his lunch and his grandmother was just inside the screen door cutting a cake. When she heard Charles begin to scream and cry, she flung open the door and rushed outside... A tan, top-shaped object dragging a soot like trail hovered just above the boy's head, then went straight up into the air and disappeared from sight."[footnote 2] |
| Hynek Classification | CE-II |
| Original Vallee Classification | Type IIIc |
| Current Vallee Classification | MA5 |
| Minimum Distance | Unknown |
| Object Appearance | Inverted cone shaped object, tan color, black smoke trail, probably no larger than three feet (see Vins, 4/14/57) |
| Object Behavior | Hovered, then ascended vertically |
| Physical Effect | None |
| Medical Effect | "hair was singed, one ear looked like a piece of meat and his face was so swollen you couldn't see his nose... they took the boy to the hospital... the doctor... said that except for the soot which was embedded in his flesh, the burns did not seem to be unusual and they responded to treatment with sulfathiozol ointment. The hospitalization lasted only five days... no other ill effect was felt or observed." |
| Comments / Conclusion | IR burns and possible allergic reaction (? face swelling) |
Footnotes
1. Vallee, Passport to Magonia, ISBN 0-8092-3796-2, p 299 catalog 608
2. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet Paperback, 1969