AudioBlog: UFO Ejects Metal Over Iowa

Tales of UFOs ejecting hot metal go back to the days when flying
saucers were just becoming an American national obsession. In fact,
the first flying saucer witness, Kenneth Arnold, encountered such a
tale when he looked into the Maury Island Incident
for Fate magazine and became the first privately funded flying
saucer investigator. In this week’s blog, we’ll take a look at an
incident that was reported 30 years later in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
According to an article by Jason Offutt for the Eastern
Jackson County, Missouri, Daily Examiner published online on
February 9, 2011, Mike Moore was driving through Big Lake Park with
his wife at 7:45 p.m. on Saturday Dec. 17, 1977, when they saw
“this big ball of red stuff in the sky.” Moore said it hovered,
dropped something on fire into the park, and then flew away.
According to an article by Richard Warner published on the
website of the Historical and Preservation Society of Pottawattamie
County (Council Bluffs, Iowa), at 7:45 p.m. that same night, three
teenagers driving to a store observed what seems to be the same
falling red ball. It went behind some trees in Big Lake Park. Then,
there was a bluish-white flash and two “arms of fire” were seen
that shot out more than ten feet into the air. Read
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