SE of Deering, New HampshireAugust 1958

In August 1958, a woman and her family observed an unusual object while driving in a car near Deering, New Hampshire. The object appeared reddish-orange in color and was shaped like two saucers stacked on top of each other. The family watched it for about 20 seconds as it descended toward the tree line of a wooded valley below them. According to the witness, the object was moving at such high speed that if it had been an aircraft, it would have crashed. No airfield existed in the area where it disappeared. The family never reported the sighting at the time because they feared ridicule.

The woman did not write to the U.S. Air Force about the sighting until late 1959, more than a year after the incident. Air Force officials initially declined to investigate, noting that the time lapse between the sighting and the report made a valid evaluation impossible. However, when the family pressed their case, the Air Force sent them questionnaires to complete. The husband, a former infantry officer in World War II, filled out detailed forms describing the object. He estimated its size at roughly 10 feet in diameter and thought it was traveling at 1,000 to 1,200 miles per hour. In his written summary, he stated his strongest conviction that if the object was a real craft, it "originally came from foreign areas" and may have been a governmental project, planetary, or foreign spacecraft.

Air Force records do not show any formal conclusion or explanation for the sighting. The case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives across 35 pages.