The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Daily Oklahoman, USA, on August 4, 1965.
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By the State Staff
Sightings of unidentified flying objects continued Tuesday for the fourth straight night in Oklahoma, but the day's most spectacular sightings were reported in South America.
Observers in Curitiba, Brazil, reported seeing a squadron of 18 flying saucers flying over northern Brazil’s Parana state.
From Santiago, Chile, came a report of a flying saucer which landed but took off again when a group of people moved toward it.
The highway patrol reported Tuesday night unidentified objects were seen in the skies over Erick, Lawton, and in the Turley area near Tulsa.
Several reports were received of sightings in the Oklahoma City area.
A many-surfaced aluminum disc, found Monday night on the D. W. Meade farm 3½ miles southeast of New Allison in southern Bryan County, was an item of some mystery Tuesday in Durant.
Meade turned the welded disc over to Loyd Nabors, deputy sheriff, who was stymied: "I have absolutely no idea what it is or where it came from," he said.
A verbal description of the object, and the "ALCLAD 2024" imprinted on the side of it brought tentative identification from officials at Perrin Air Force Base, Denison, Texas. They said it is likely a piece launched with large-size weather balloons. They withheld positive identification until they see the object.
Meade found the "thing" in his pasture Monday. He said it definitely was not there Sunday.
Unidentified flying objects were sighted in the Bryan County area Sunday night—glowing red and skimming just above tree-top level, according to witnesses.
"Maybe Mars has an ALCOA plant there, too," one wiseacre commented.
The fleet of objects over Brazil was first seen by two little girls. They saw four moving over the horizon in daylight at Astorga, about 250 miles west of São Paulo. They called three neighbors, who reported seeing 14 other saucers in formation. They were described as silvery with a greenish light shining from the top.
John Stark, 952 NW 6, Moore, reported he watched some object with a reddish light on top and a white light on the bottom hover at what he estimated as 2,000 feet above Will Rogers World Airport around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
"I couldn't see the shape of it," he said, "but I could see it had two distinct sources of light. It kinda shakes you up; it's no laughing matter."
Stark said he called his wife over when he had the object lined up between two houses. It hovered there, he said, as lights from a plane passed at the same level, then took off and disappeared.
Stark said the lights on the object were "six or eight times brighter than a star." Stark, a pre-dental student at Central State College, Edmond, is a sports writer for The Daily Oklahoman.
Like the unidentified flying objects, the Oklahoma City police switchboard glowed brightly with numerous UFO sightings, mostly from the west side of town.
One youth reported seeing an object rise either from Lake Hefner or its shoreline. Another reported seeing two round objects circling about a mile from his home at 104 SW 48. He said the objects flashed red lights and headed south at a high rate of speed.
Joe Sprinkle, 18, said he, his parents, and sister watched a bright orange object that "looked like a ball of fire" appear on the edge of the city. He said the UFO first headed south, then it appeared to reverse as it just zoomed by.
A prisoner at Tinker saw a bright blue object "with a halo" about halfway up in the sky from his home at NW 10th and Shartel. He said he watched it for about 10 minutes at about 8:30 p.m.
W. R. Bill Clark, 9909 Western, said he and his wife watched three separate UFOs at about 8:30 p.m. He said one headed northeast to southwest on the east side of the city, and a short time later one headed in the same direction on the west side. A third, he said, moved straight west.
He said all three appeared to be red and traveled at a terrific rate of speed, taking only a minute or two to traverse the sky from horizon to horizon.
