United States · 19 August 1965

Cherry Creek, 1965

Documented

A bull bent a steel restraining bar trying to get away from it, the milk yield dropped from two and a half cans to one, and the Air Force wrote that the sighting was not consistent with conventional visual phenomena.

Where
Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County, New York
When
19 August 1965
Who reported it
4 civilians on a dairy farm; a New York State Trooper investigating
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
Evidence class
GOV-2

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

The document is attached to this entry.

What is not settled

Purple residue at the site was analysed and identified as gentian violet plus 3-in-one oil and dismissed as unrelated. The principal witnesses were teenagers.

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