Sighting record / 1966
Friday, 19 August 1966. Late afternoon, near Donnybrook, North Dakota. U.S. Border Patrol officer Don Flickinger watched a silvery disc with a dome come floating down the side of a hill. It wobbled like a falling leaf, about ten feet off the ground. It hovered. It settled within a few feet of the grass. Then it took off with a whoosh and vanished into the clouds. The next day he went back. Three holes sat in the ground in a triangle. Project Blue Book filed the case as unidentified. J. Allen Hynek walked the site himself.
Summer 1966. Donnybrook is a small town in Ward County, North Dakota, northwest of Minot. The land around it belonged to the Cold War. NICAP's chronology notes that "Donnybrook is in the Kilo Flight Launch Facilities area", part of the Minuteman missile field around Minot Air Force Base. Don Flickinger was a U.S. Border Patrol officer based in Minot. According to the Minot Daily News in 1966, he had two prisoners with him that afternoon.