Date:
August 19, 1965
Location: Cherry Creek, New York, United States
Sixteen
year old Harold Butcher was milking the cows in his father's
barn in Cherry Creek, N.Y. Harold heard one of the bulls
outside make a noise "like I have never heard come
from an animal before." Simultaneously he saw a metallic-looking,
football-shaped UFO about 50 feet long and approximately
20 feet thick hovering just above the trees an estimated
450 feet from the barn.
The Cherry Creek, N.Y., UFO, August 19, 1965.
Source:
NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon),
'Strange Effects from UFOs', by Donald Keyhoe and Gordon
Lore
Bull
Bends Pipe
Sixteen-year-old
Harold Butcher was milking the cows in his father's barn
in Cherry Creek, N.Y. As he was working, he was listening
to Radio Station WKBW. Just outside, a three-year-old
bull was tied by the nose to a metal pipe. It was about
8:20 p.m., August 19, 1965.
Harold
heard the bull make a noise "like I have never
heard come from an animal before." Looking out
of the window, the teen-ager saw the animal was actually
bending the pipe. Simultaneously, he saw a metallic-looking,
football-shaped UFO about 50 feet long and approximately
20 feet thick hovering just above the trees an estimated
450 feet from the barn.
Slowly,
the object descended behind a maple tree, emitting a red
vapor from around its edges and a "beep-beep"
sound as it did so. Meanwhile, the radio was emitting
a lot of static, even though WKBW usually has a clear
signal in that area.
The
witness, using a connecting telephone, called the house,
then ran outside. As he approached the bull, the UFO rose
to behind some clouds "as fast as a snap of my
fingers."
"As
it began to rise," reported Jeffrey J. Gow, who
investigated the sighting for NICAP, "the red
vapor, which was about 50 inches wide, shot from the edges
toward the ground, then bounced back to the ship as it
hovered about 10 feet in the air."
The
noise pitch of the object also increased to a level approximating
a sonic boom as it rose. As the UFO disappeared behind
the clouds, the clouds became green.
Harold
ran into the farmhouse. Inside, the boy's mother, Mrs.
William Butcher, noted that there was "definite
interference" in her radio reception. Harold's
brother, Robert, also went outside and the two boys saw
that the UFO had reappeared, this time hovering over a
pine grove. Again it ascended, emitting the red vapor
and turning the clouds green. Others in the house included
Mrs. Butcher, William Butcher, Jr., and Kathleen Brougham,
a friend. They did not see the object at this time.
Immediately,
Mrs. Butcher telephoned the Fredonia State Police Station.
They said they would dispatch an officer to the scene.
Then, all except Mrs. Butcher, who was looking after a
small daughter, went outside to look for the object. They
saw nothing. Harold and Robert returned to the house.
William, Jr., entered the milk house.
Object
Sighted Again
At
9 p.m., Kathleen Brougham rushed screaming into the house,
stumbling over the Butchers' small daughter.
"It's
here again!" she exclaimed.
All
but Mrs. Butcher rushed outside. The witnesses saw the
UFO hovering "with a glowing yellow vapor trail."
There was still a green glow to the clouds. The object
headed southwest toward Jamestown.
Trooper
C. J. Haas and a fellow officer arrived on the scene shortly
thereafter. As the policemen and witnesses walked out
to inspect the area ot the initial sighting, all noticed
a pungent odor. Harold and the young daughter suffered
from upset stomachs. Mrs. Butcher said that the cows gave
only one can of milk that evening as opposed to their
usual two and a half cans.
At
the same time as the sighting, Mrs. Butcher's niece, Mrs.
Sharon Rouland, who lives five miles from the Butcher
farm, reported that her television set experienced interference.
Harold
discovered a purple liquid oily-smelling substance and
gave a sample of it to the state police who turned it
over to Capt. James A. Dorsey and five others from the
Niagara Falls Air Force Base, who came to investigate
the report, the following afternoon.
When
Jeffrey Gow arrived on the scene, he noticed the foot-tall
grass in the area "seemed to be bent over in long
curved sweeps."
"I
picked up plants which seemed to be singed on one side
but were still green on the other," Gow said
in his report to NICAP. "I also dug up a one-foot-round
area which seemed to be very slightly singed. ... We discovered
parallel two-inch-wide tracks separated by two inches
of sod. The tracks were two inches deep. ... In the tracks,
the soil had been just recently exposed. The sod that
appeared to be scooped out in these tracks could not be
found at the site."
The
physical evidence was sent to Henry C. Hawecki, consulting
engineer and NICAP adviser, who reported that the presence
of phosphorous in the grass could have accounted for the
odor of phosphene.
Source:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case572.htm