The Object proceeded toward my location and passed directly over me.  As I turned to face East (toward the back of my house), the object (which I saw was not a delta wing plane, but in fact 6 individual oval-shaped objects, with a crescent or half moon shaped object in front) passed to about 80 degrees vertical and the right side of the -V- pivoted on it's axis about 45 degrees to form an upside down -L-.  The whole assembly then slid 90 degrees to the left.

After traveling about 10-15 degrees, the left side then swung back and resumed the -V- formation before disappearing in the night sky.

The seven objects made no sound as far as I could tell and did not blink at anytime, but maintained a smooth steady motion across 270 degrees of the sky.  They were approximately 1/4 inch in diameter, by my estimate at arms length.

I called the Owensboro Daviess County airport and was advised: "No aircraft in the area at that time, either civilian or military." 

The cloud ceiling was said to be 2000 ft.  I could see the clouds streak against the brightness of these fluorescent colored objects.

They were either in the clouds, or above them.  In August, 1967, Jack Murphree (radio announcer for local radio station) Ralph Dorris (engineer for General Electric Corp) and I paid a visit to a man by the name of Darrell Whitehouse, a farmer who lived in East-Daviess Co., Ky., about 15 miles from Owensboro.  He directed us to his soy bean field, about 300 yards from his house.  There we encountered a circle approximately 30 ft. in diameter.  The beans within this circle were brown and withered.  The ground was extremely dry.  I took samples of the bean plants with their roots and soil, and mailed them to NICAP* foranalysis.  We took several photographs and tape-recorded a statement from the witness. 

Later, Ralph flew over the area and took aerial photos.

  *NICAP was NATIONAL INVESTIGATION COMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA, established in the early 1950's by Major Donald Keyhoe, USMC, RET., which no longer is in existence.

Incidentally, Ralph and Jack personally traveled to Hopkinsville, Ky. on August 26, 1955 and interviewed the people involved in the Kelly-Hopkinsville Case, which involved little men in silver suits. I have subsequently done considerable research on this case and have considerable information in my files.  I traveled to the surrounding cities and visited the libraries to obtain copies of microfiche of the newspaper articles of that time. I also contacted the author of a book entitled:  "THE PENNYRILE", which contains an early history of that section of the state of Kentucky.  He gave me a copy of his work on the Kelly-Hopkinsville Incident, and we have exchanged information on this case since then. 

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