Columbia, Missouri UFO Encounter (June 28, 1973): Bright Beams, Ground Imprints, and Physical Traces

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James Richard and his 16-year-old daughter Vanea in Columbia, Missouri, watched two bright beams light up the area as an oval craft about 15 feet across hovered near the ground and then drifted off, while the neighborhood looked lit like day and trees swayed, Richard called the police, and investigators later found two-foot-deep ground impressions, broken branches, crushed foliage, and leaves burned as high as 35 feet with more wilted leaves afterward, leaving questions about what happened.