AudioBlog: A 1976 UFO Encounter in Kentucky

In our last blog, we looked at a case involving three women in
Kentucky who experienced actinic conjunctivitis after a UFO
encounter. Since the blog was about multiple UFO-related
conjunctivitis cases, we focused on that aspect of the encounter,
but there was more to their story – a lot more.According to the
October 1976 APRO Bulletin (date from February 12, 1976 Kentucky
Casey County Press) on January 6, 1976, Louise Smith, Mona
Stafford, and Elaine Thomas were all sitting in the front seat of
Smith’s 1967 Chevy, which she had bought the day before. Smith was
driving and they were on their way back to Liberty, Kentucky, where
they all lived, after having had dinner at the Redwoods restaurant
29 miles away, five miles north of Stanford, Kentucky. They had
gone there to celebrate Stafford’s birthday (they reportedly didn’t
drink any alcohol) and left at 11:15 p.m.They were about one mile
south of Stanford when they spotted a large metallic disc-shaped
object with a glowing white dome. There were “three or four” lights
on the underside that were red and yellow, and “a bluish beam of
light issued from the bottom.” The object descended from their
right to left and then hovered at tree level over the road in front
of them. At this point, they were able to estimate its size. Smith
said it was “as big as a football field,” and Stafford said it was
about the size of two houses. It gently rocked back and forth for a
couple of seconds and then moved off to their left.Read more