PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE8262751

DATE OF SIGHTINGNovember 1966

REPORTED LOCATIONMineral Wells West Virginia

FRAMES3

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PROJECT 10 73 RECORD
1. . DAJE · TIME GROUP LOCATION
Nov 66 2430Z Mineral Wells,e
. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Civilian Civilian (other) (other) INSUFFIC.E.T DATA FOR EVALUATION INSUFFIC.E.T DATA FOR EVALUATION
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
One
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 1. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
2 Hours 2 Hours ·SEE CASE
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION OBSERVATION
Grpund Grpund Visual
7. COURSE
Varied
3. PHOTOS
Yes
2 No
D. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
17 Yes
xNo
FORM
FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of this form may be used.
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LOOK HUMAN
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Salesman Chats
With Space Visitor
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (UPI) - With police and
an Air Force representative listening, Woodrow Deren-
who did everything - ask him to "Take me to
your leader."
However, the "spaceman" did -according to Deren-
berger -- tell him: "Have no fear. We come from a
mean you no harm. country that is not nearly as powerful as yours. We
mean you no harm."
Derenberger, a salesman and father of two, held a Derenberger, a salesman and father of two, held a
news conference yesterday to relat news conference yesterday to relate the experience the experience
he said occurred abour 7:30 p.m. Wednesday while he said occurred about 7:30 p.n Wednesday while
driving home from Marietta, O., on interstate 77.
ATTENDING THE conference were local policemen ATTENDING THE conference were local policemen
and an Air Force representative who said he would Force repr
report Derenberger's account either to Washington or report Derenberger' cou r to Washington or
the UFO investigative center at Wright-Patterson AFB. the UFO investigative cer at Wright-Patterson AFB.
Derenberger isode began when a "dark,
long object" tray the same speed as his
panel truck "cu of my vehicle and continued to
travel at some esideways."
The object was charcoal gray in color, he said, "ap-
parently made of sc me kind of metal and shaped some-
thing like an old kerosene lamp globe, having a flat
bottom and a domelike top."
With no visible lights, it moved along eight to 10
inches above the pavement, blocke the highway and
finally stopped," he said.
DERENBERGER SAID the side of the UFO then
opened and "man" stepped out, approached his truck
and told him to roll down the window.
In a fiv o l0-minute conversation," he said, the
man communicated through "thought waves or mental
telepathy." Derenberger said his lips were closed in a fixed smile. .
He described spaceman' about six feet
tall, 35 to 40 years old our standards" and about
185 pounds. 185 pounds.
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