Speaker 1: Hello, this is Martin Willis. I'm reading an audio blog
Speaker 1: by Charles Lear, a nineteen seventy three humanoid case from
Speaker 1: Indiana by UFO history book and author Charles Lear. We
Speaker 1: often write about UFO cases that end up being neglected
Speaker 1: as other more dramatic cases grab the attention of investigators
Speaker 1: and the press. A case that was doomed just to
Speaker 1: this sort of treatment involved reports on October twenty second,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three out of Indiana. This was just after
Speaker 1: the October twelfth Pasca Gula incident and the October eighteenth
Speaker 1: Coin helicopter incident. And while all three cases share the
Speaker 1: front page of the September October nineteen seventy three APRO bulletin,
Speaker 1: the Indiana case faded into obscurity as the other two
Speaker 1: cases became classics. We first came across this case in
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy five Center for the UFO Studies publication
Speaker 1: Physical Traces associated with UFO Sightings, a preliminary catalog compiled
Speaker 1: by Ted Phillips and edited by Mimi Heinik. The case
Speaker 1: shows up on page ninety five and is included in
Speaker 1: the catalog because there were traces found in a field
Speaker 1: of the day after the sightings. The source for the
Speaker 1: report is given as the aforementioned issue of the APRO
Speaker 1: bulletin the Indiana case got the big headline occupants in
Speaker 1: Indiana above, UFO chases helicopter in the first column and
Speaker 1: Pascagoula affair in the second. According to the article starting
Speaker 1: in the third column, at nine to forty five pm
Speaker 1: on October twenty second, mister and Missus Dwayne Donathan were
Speaker 1: driving home from Missus Donathan's mother's house in Hartford City, Indiana.
Speaker 1: Along the way, they saw two small creatures in the
Speaker 1: road ahead of them. They reported what they saw and
Speaker 1: were interviewed by Connorsfield Base APRO field investigator Donald Worley.
Speaker 1: Missus Donathan is quoted describing the scene. We were coming
Speaker 1: home from visiting my mother and I was driving Dwayne,
Speaker 1: my husband held the baby, and we were just a
Speaker 1: block from home. I rounded a slight curve and a
Speaker 1: small hill, and there in the road we've seen what
Speaker 1: I thought might be a reflection from a farm tractor
Speaker 1: in the road. I slowed down and I could see
Speaker 1: what it looked like two kids about four feet tall,
Speaker 1: moving in the road. I stopped the car about thirty
Speaker 1: feet distant, and with headlights shining on them, I decided
Speaker 1: it could couldn't be kids at this time of night
Speaker 1: in the road with me coming at them in the car.
Speaker 1: They looked confused. They would hop up in the air
Speaker 1: and their feet would come down slowly, one at a time,
Speaker 1: and their arms would flop funny. They moved slower than
Speaker 1: humans do, and their feet and arms would go up funny.
Speaker 1: Their feet came down in the ground easily. They were
Speaker 1: bright silver. Missus Donathan reportedly said she was a bad
Speaker 1: artist and refused to make a drawing of the creatures.
Speaker 1: According to the article, Missus Donathan said the creatures were
Speaker 1: slightly built and the reporter's words straight in form to
Speaker 1: the ground. She didn't remember their heads or other features,
Speaker 1: but was able to describe their feet. She said they
Speaker 1: had boxes on them a little larger than shoes. She
Speaker 1: didn't recall any sort of sound, explained that their tape
Speaker 1: player was playing loudly and their engine was running, or
Speaker 1: any odor. She also said that their clothing or their
Speaker 1: surface was and the reporter's words tight fitting. Missus Donothan,
Speaker 1: and extremely frightened by the sight, yelled, oh my god,
Speaker 1: and she stepped down on the accelerator as she swerved
Speaker 1: around the creatures. They seemed to be having difficulty as
Speaker 1: they moved away from the center of the road. They
Speaker 1: are described as moving in a slow, clumsy manner, with
Speaker 1: their feet apart and their arms flopping. Panicked, missus Donathan
Speaker 1: drove several blocks and then turned south and continued until
Speaker 1: her husband was able to convince her to pull over
Speaker 1: and stop by an old church. He believed that what
Speaker 1: they saw might have been children. He reportedly didn't get
Speaker 1: a good look and persuaded his wife to drive back
Speaker 1: to the area so he could and the reporter's words
Speaker 1: scold them. When they got to the area, the creatures
Speaker 1: were gone, but they did see some identified lights in
Speaker 1: the sky to the north at forty five degrees elevation.
Speaker 1: They went back to missus Donathan's mother's house, and Missus
Speaker 1: Donathan was so upset that they considered calling a doctor,
Speaker 1: but she eventually calmed down. The only thing mister Donoth
Speaker 1: had had to add was that after he had passed
Speaker 1: the creatures, they seemed to be on the other side
Speaker 1: of a fence in a cornfield. Another person who reported
Speaker 1: seeing the creatures was Gary Flatter, a Hertford City gas
Speaker 1: station owner who drove his own wrecker. According to the article,
Speaker 1: he was with his friend, Deputy sheriff ed townsend and
Speaker 1: state policeman who wished to remain anonymous, when the call
Speaker 1: came in about the Donothan sighting. He went to the
Speaker 1: site in the townsend's car. The state policeman presumably went
Speaker 1: in his own car and saw nothing, but he did
Speaker 1: hear a high pitch sound at a certain spot in
Speaker 1: the road. The three men went back to the town
Speaker 1: Flatter and the state policeman returned, Flatter in his wrecker
Speaker 1: and the policeman in his patrol car, and as Flatter
Speaker 1: drove around the area, the policeman went east. As Flatter
Speaker 1: was thinking it was time to go home, he came
Speaker 1: to a spot just south of Donothan's sighting and was
Speaker 1: surprised by a large group of animals moving across the
Speaker 1: road from north to south. He stopped to avoid hitting
Speaker 1: them and counted an apossum, some cats, and six or
Speaker 1: seven rabbits. He then heard the same high pitched sound
Speaker 1: he'd heard before. Looking round carefully, Flatter eventually spotted two
Speaker 1: creatures to the south about four feet tall that were
Speaker 1: standing in what looked to be a plowed field. He
Speaker 1: said they seemed to be wearing tight fitting silver suits
Speaker 1: and that the glare as they reflected his headlights was
Speaker 1: about halfway between galvanized sheet metal and mirror. Flatter said
Speaker 1: they appeared to be looking south and he thought they
Speaker 1: could be better observed in the edge of my headlights.
Speaker 1: He continued to them from a position about seventy five
Speaker 1: feet to the west of them, and could still hear
Speaker 1: the high pitched sound above the noise of the engine.
Speaker 1: He put his spotlight on him, and they turned around,
Speaker 1: giving him the impression they didn't like the light. Their
Speaker 1: reflection hurt his eyes, so he turned the spotlight off.
Speaker 1: Flatter said the creatures had egg shaped heads in what
Speaker 1: seemed to be gas masks, with hoses the diameter of
Speaker 1: a garden hose going down to their chests. He couldn't
Speaker 1: see any facial features and said their arms ended without hands.
Speaker 1: He noted their movement was slow, and he said their
Speaker 1: feet were square, with a heel a little over the back.
Speaker 1: He estimated the size of their feet to be three
Speaker 1: inches by six inches and two inches thick. He said
Speaker 1: they moved and jumped as if they were skipping rope,
Speaker 1: seemingly without the effort of muscles. Their power to move
Speaker 1: seemed to be in their feet, he said. They would
Speaker 1: move up about three feet off the ground and then
Speaker 1: go back down, all of this in slow motion. They
Speaker 1: might move an arm, but not much, he said, and
Speaker 1: they went up. The fourth time, they stayed up and
Speaker 1: flew like a helicopter in the feet down position. He added.
Speaker 1: They flew off in the dark, and he couldn't find
Speaker 1: them with a spotlight. He said he did see some
Speaker 1: red trace like streaks coming down. The next day, Flatter,
Speaker 1: Townsend and miss Donathan returned to the area and found
Speaker 1: impressions in a cornfield next to where the Donothans had
Speaker 1: encountered the creatures. According to the report, there were seven
Speaker 1: of them, all three quarters of an inch deep, three
Speaker 1: inches across, and rounded as if they were made of
Speaker 1: a typical heel. They were alternate rows as if made
Speaker 1: by walking, and strides were estimated by Donathan as twelve
Speaker 1: inch and Flatter as eighteen inch. It is noted that
Speaker 1: the ground had been dry for several weeks, and that
Speaker 1: the three men, each weighing two hundred pounds, did not
Speaker 1: leave an imprint. Charles Lear is the author of The
Speaker 1: Flying Saucer Investigators in the second edition on Amazon dot com.
Speaker 1: Thank you