INVESTIGATOR'S REPORT
Fran Ridge, Investigator

DAYLIGHT DOMED DISC / MADAR' AUG. 39, 1970, VINCENNES, IN



August 30, 1970; Vincennes, Indiana
11:30 a.m. A young girl (age 7), saw a metallic disc in the ENE hovering over Wheatland Road and reported it to her parents. Her father went outside and saw the object, too. He re-entered the house to get his 7x50 binoculars, and when he emerged, the object was closer. It was described as about a quarter of a mile away, looked like "a garbage can lid with a piece of watermelon on top" and about 30' in diameter. The man stated in his report he filed with NICAP that somebody else should have seen it, it was that low. The object was observed for a minute and a half by three witnesses, this man his wife and daughter. It departed in a swooping dive to the NNE.



The report was interesting in itself, three people known to be reliable in the city had seen a flying saucer in broad daylight!  But there was more to it. UFO sighting reports were rare in those days, but ocasionally made the news in Vincennes, and almost always were either misinterpretations of common objects under unusual sighting conditions, rare barium clouds, or just unidentified lights in the sky. The unidentified lights could have been real UFOs but there was seldom enough to go on, an usually with only one witness. The craft observed on August 30th was definitely an exception. There was an active UFO situation in the area. That is what made the MADAR detection of an anomaly on September 9th so important. And the MADAR site, less than a few miles southwest of the sighting area, had tracked the geomagnetic disturbance at 4:45 p.m. Whatever was occurring was happening in daylight hours! And it got even more interesting. On September 22nd, MADAR picked up another magnetic disturbance at 12:30 p.m., seemingly indicating some unusual geomagnetic activity. Not what we would term a correlation in any sense of the word, but happening relatively close in time of rarity.

Another mystery concerning this sighting turned up many years later in 2020 when we learned about Operation Foal Eagle in South Korea where special satellite tracking teams had picked up a a major disturbance which was followed by the observation of an object coming down in a zig-zag maneuver  entering the atmosphere. Once it settled down and was idling, the burst of energy subsided. This was evidence which may explain why MADAR, less than 3 miles away, had not picked up the saucer at Vincennes. The saucer may have entered the atmosphere at a point beyond the MADAR range, then moved horizontally in more or less idling mode to another location which was east of town where the UFO encounter took place. And it also suggests that this happened at least twice during the August 30 -Sept 22 period.

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