Augusta County's 1964–1965 UFO Wave: The Beehive-Shaped Object and a Period of Widespread Sightings

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From December 1964 to February 1965 Augusta County, Virginia, experienced a wave of UFO reports starting with Horace Burns’s sighting of a huge beehive‑shaped craft near Fishersville, investigated by Ernest Gehman and Project Blue Book, spreading to dozens of sightings across Staunton, Dooms, Verona and Waynesboro, including William Blackburn’s January 22 encounter with two small humanoids at Brands Flat, which led to armed patrols and Sheriff John Kent’s warning, while astronomers like Leander McCormick Observatory and Larry Frederick offered meteors as an explanation, and the events faded by late February.