Report Summary	"Mr. Seaman [actual name confidential] owns a small airport along a major river in New England... Shortly after 2AM Mrs. Seaman awoke [due to] a loud whirring sound [that] permeated the house momentarily and stopped... she awoke her husband... [who] got up and turned on the yard lights. Hovering just 25 feet [above] a small pond between the house and the airport was ... like 'two shallow metallic saucers, one inverted upon the other, with a transparent canopy situated on its topside.' Elongated ventlike holes spaced evenly around the object's rim emitted soft orange flames. A softer greener light illuminated the interior of the canopy, which revealed two headlike silhoettes that appeared to move and look at him...[he] headed toward the object, waving his hands at it as he went... its orange lights began to spin faster... Tilting back at an angle of about thirty degrees, it shot away into the dark morning sky."[footnote 1] "...shallow metallic saucers, one inverted upon the other with a clear canopy situated on the edge of the uppermost disk facing him. Elongated vent-like holes were spaced evenly around the rim which emitted soft orange flames 'like gas stove flames'. A softer, greenish light illuminated the interior of the canopy revealing two head-like silhouettes behind two upright 'lobster-claw-like' silhouettes... Thinking that the object was an aircraft in trouble, he walked toward it yelling and waving his arms, whereupon it reacted by moving smoothly and silently away from him at a speed estimated between 5 and 10 mph. It maintained the same altitude and again stopped and hovered over some gasoline tanks and aircraft. [The witness] then walked around the pond and again approached the object yelling and waving, whereupon the object reacted by beginning to spin rapidly making a loud swishing sound that increased to a loud whirring sound. The object then tilted back at an angle of 30-45 degrees and took off at a very high rate of speed, dwindling in size until it disappeared into the distance... Concurrently... the yard light dimmed to practically nothing and then came back on full strength. As he approached the area over which the object had been hovering he noticed a smell 'like from a burning match' lingering in the air but quickly dissipating after a few minutes... total sighting duration was not much more than a minute... he felt no air motion or heat."[footnote 2]
Hynek Classification	CE-III
Original Vallee Classification	Type Ia
Current Vallee Classification	CE3
Minimum Distance	Within a hundred feet?
Object Appearance	Metallic disk, 50 feet in diameter, 25 feet high including dome. Dome transparent with two occupants and greenish interior light. Rotating orange 'flames' at rim. "...The material of which the craft was constructed was smooth and was compared to the aluminum an airplane propellor is constructed of or like brushed aluminum. It was not highly reflective, yet it was not completely dull. The lights from the porch and the object's glowing rim and canopy combined with its closeness which varied between an estimated 100-250 feet enabled [the witness] to get a real good look at it. Its size was... approximately 50 feet in diameter by 25 feet high (drawing does not show this proportion) including the upright canopy. There were no signs of protrusions, seams, or rivets, and the canopy was described as made of the clearest material he had ever seen."[footnote 3] Sketches are from the original case report:
Object Behavior	Hovered, avoided witness' approach, departed when witness confronted object. Increased speed of rim luminosity rotation and 30 degree backward tilt prior to departure.
Occupant Description	"A softer, greenish light illuminated the interior of the canopy revealing two head-like silhouettes behind two upright 'lobster-claw-like' silhouettes. The head-like silhouettes were initially described... as having 'ears' or 'antennae' and long sharp nose-like protrusions... however [the witness] failed to mention the 'ears' or 'antennae' to us when we interviewed him but did mention the nose-like protrusions and the fact that he thought he could visualize 'eye areas' set back in the 'heads'. He stated that his impressions were vague and although he thought it possible that the silhouettes could have been living entities, that they could perhaps have been robots or just part of the craft itself..."[footnote 4]
Physical Effect	Yard lights dimmed with object departure. Swishing and whirring sound on approach and departure. Smell like burnt matches.
Medical Effect	None
Comments / Conclusion	Fascinating possible recurrences of this object sighting are the Moreland case (New Zealand, July 13, 1959), the Aveyron case (Aveyron, France, January 11, 1967) and Lakeland FL (October 1968)

Footnotes

1. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, ISBN 0-553-13299-7, p 209

2. Original case report from Raymond Fowler

3. Original case report from Raymond Fowler

4. Original case report from Raymond Fowler