The Dancers in the Road
- Classification (Hynek): CE3.
- Witnesses: DeWayne Donathan, Gary Flatter.
- Time & Place: 9:45 pm, 22 October 1973; Blackford County, Indiana.
- Entity Type (Lawson): Humanoid.
- Craft: None seen.
- Summary: Two motorists see a pair of waltzing silver humanoids.
Eerie Indiana
On the evening of October 23 1973, a pair of dancing silver-suited humanoids visited Blackford County, Indiana. They were seen on two separate occasions by motorists travelling down the same stretch of country road three hours apart.
Flying humanoids depicted on a 1931 pulp cover
The first sighting occurred at 9:45pm. DeWayne Donathan and his wife were driving home when they noticed a silvery light up ahead. They thought it might be a reflection from an abandoned vehicle and slowed to take a closer look. They discovered two 4-ft-high silver figures who were moving as though "dancing to music".
"They were kind of dancing around in the middle of the road in a circle," Donathan told the Hartford City Times. "It didn't look as if they wanted to get very far apart from each other.
"When they turned around and looked at our car, they acted like they couldn't get off the road. They looked like they were skipping, but didn't have their feet in front of them and couldn't move very fast. They had their arms in front of them."
The Donathans drove past the strange pair but couldn't resist turning back to take another look. The dancers had vanished, but DeWayne noticed two bright lights "blinking in an up-and-down motion" in the night sky.
Sharing the Spotlight
Three hours later, store manager Gary Flatter encountered a similar pair of entities while driving along the same route. He stopped to allow a procession of small mammals to cross the road and noticed the silver-suited duo cavorting in an adjacent field. They had egg-shaped heads and appeared to be wearing gasmasks.
When he shone his headlights on them, the dancers turned their backs to him, kicked their feet, and rose slowly into the air. Then they "just drifted away" at a stately 20 miles-per-hour.
"There was no possibility it was kids dressed in aluminium suits," Flatter assured reporters.
Sources
Ralph & Judy Blum: Beyond Earth: Man's Contact With UFOs, pp141-142.
Chancellor Press: World's Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries, p263.