The second outstanding incident he remembered occurred on an August evening.

“There were two couples from Oregon staying with us at the time and we had been telling them about our UFOs but they were pretty skeptical and just laughed. Then on this particular evening some of the other guests were sitting outside when one of the ladies there pointed to a bright light in the sky and asked what it was. Someone said it was Venus. 'In that case,' she said, 'Venus is moving.'

“Well, that light was moving all right. It came right on down and hovered for a while. It was about the size of a DC8 and lit the whole place up. The two men from Oregon came out just then and were just as amazed as we were. They called to their wives and they came out and stared like the rest of us. Then the light went across the highway and settled behind a clump of trees three or four miles away. We couldn't see the light itself after that but everything around it stood out plain as day.”
If any of the group considered having a closer look at the light, they were soon dissuaded by what happened next.

“That thing started a dry electric storm that lasted all night,” Grattan continued. “Lightning flashed around it, yet the sky remained absolutely clear.”

Obviously close exposure to such activity could be dangerous, but Grattan was determined to maintain watch on the light even though they could not see it directly. He arranged that no fewer than seven of his men be on lookout at all times for whatever period the light stayed there.

“We kept an eye on it from about nine o'clock to 4:15 the next morning, then somehow it disappeared. As the sky started to brighten, the aura of light just wasn't there any more. After a while I had some of the men go over to see if it had left any trace but there was nothing. There wasn't a mark or a sign of burning anywhere.”