The Delphos Ring: A Glowing Object Leaves Physical Trace and Temporary Blindness
On the evening of November 2, 1971, sixteen-year-old Ronald Johnson was tending sheep on his family's farm near Delphos, Kansas, when a mushroom-shaped, multi-colored glowing object descended to…
Narration
A mushroom-shaped craft hovers two feet above a dark Kansas field.
November 2, 1971 — the dome-topped craft rockets skyward, leaving only darkness.
Ronald Johnson, temporarily blinded, stumbles toward the farmhouse to alert his family.
A glowing ring eight feet across pulses blue-white on the cold Kansas soil.
Ted Phillips documented the ring bone dry despite snow, fibrous white material defying explanation.
What hovered over that Kansas farm field has never been explained.