1952: Encounter in Little Spring Creek, Tennessee

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: June 1952

Sighting Time: 2300

Day/Night: Night

Location: Little Spring Creek, Tennessee

Urban or Rural: Rural

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.

Duration: nearly an hour

No. of Object(s):  1

Size of Object(s):

Distance to Object(s): 75 yards

Shape of Object(s): “2 saucers stuck together,” with a central dome around which rotated very brilliant multicolored lights

Color of Object(s): shiny aluminum

Number of Witnesses: 2

Special Features/Characteristics: four or five little men dancing and singing around a shiny aluminum like object with open door

Source: Stanley Ingram

Summary/Description: Walking home from a movie, Carl Haynes heard “weird music and singing,” which proved to come from “the brightest lights you ever saw” down on the far side of the creek bank.

Approaching to within 75 yards, he could see four or five little men dancing and singing around a shiny aluminum like object with open door, from which the music came. It looked like “2 saucers stuck together,” with a central dome around which rotated very brilliant multicolored lights; in their hands they held something resembling guns.

Within 10 minutes they stopped singing, and began putting things in the “space ship.” He thought they had detected his presence, and “would have done something about him” but for the creek between.

They went back in, the door closed, and the UFO took off “straight up in a kind of corkscrew motion,” with a whistling sound, becoming brighter as it took off. The whole episode took nearly an hour. When Haynes revisited the spot, he found 4 impressions of balls, and a deep sunk spike mark in the middle.

Also, there were many narrow “heel-less” footprints in the dust. Another man (now deceased) had also seen the lights and heard the music.