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story, Warner Cowgill, left the family in hospital, wishing them well. No further records of their strange and painful experience exist.

Driving through a dense fog near a graveyard, a Massachusetts couple, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Wallace, noticed a bright glow to their left. It was one o'clock a.m., on March 8, 1967. Afraid the glow might be fire (and the fog smoke), they turned around for a better look.

The glow turned out to be a light hovering a few hundred feet above the cemetery. Mr. Wallace got out of the car, and was then thrust against it by an unknown force. The car stalled. Its electrical system went out at the same time. Wallace couldn't move from where he stood, and his wife was panicking. In an instant, the light disappeared, and everything was back to normal - except, of course, the shaken witnesses.

UFOs have been known not only to harass people, but damage wildlife. Around midnight on June 28, 1973, Venea Richards was taking care of her younger brother in the Missouri motor home they shared with her father. She was startled by a "thrashing" sound, coming from a northern swath of trees. She called to her father, and they both looked out the window to see to white beams of light appearing to rise from the trees. They disappeared shortly, revealing their assumed cause: a very bright, floating, oval shape.

The trees blew around as if in gale winds. Some appeared to bend in half, tugged toward the ground. Venea and her father heard a loud crack, and the low floating object moved further north. Dimming, the object emitted orange and blue light. If flew around for a little while, then shrank until it disappeared.

In the aftermath, trees were found broken and scattered; limbs were partially severed, and looked like they had been twisted. All of the damage was fresh, and the leaves on the ground around the broken branches looked charred. Authorities checked the area for radiation the next day, and didn't detect any.

Not all UFO evidence can be put down to errant satellites and weather balloons - some, like the stories above, will likely never be explained, either due to a lack of serious scientific investigation, or because the stories are just too old to be considered more than fiction, however truthfully they were phrased.

Sources:

Jerome Clark. "The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial." Detroit, Michigan: Visible Ink, 1998.

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