Three small orbs strike a driver near Bend, Oregon
A biotechnologist driving toward Bend, Oregon, at night with his daughter saw three baseball-sized objects darting near the ground in a field. They came at the car: one crossed the dashboard in front of them and another passed through his left shoulder and out through his right. He was dizzy and sick that night, woke with the left side of his face sunburnt, and within days lost hair on his left side and some sight and hearing on the left. Months later he developed a rare ductal carcinoma. Colm Kelleher says BAASS physicians followed the family for months with blood samples and judged the injuries a 'high probability' result of the encounter. No date was given.
Evidence, in date order (1)
- Mar 2010DOW-UAP-D128 (DIRD, March 2010)documentAAWSAP's own study of injuries to observers of anomalous aerospace systems, written in the same years AAWSAP Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs) released in PURSUE Release 06
How plausible · High
A government program's own physicians followed the injuries for months; told firsthand by the program official, with the witness unnamed.
- ●●Access Kelleher ran BAASS field work; its physicians examined the family.
- ●●Restraint "High probability", not certainty.
- ●●Fits the documented skeleton AAWSAP and BAASS are documented.
- ●●Physical traces or official reaction Burns, hair loss, sight and hearing loss followed by physicians with blood samples.
- ●○Cost of speaking Kelleher speaks on record.
- ●○No gain sought Told in a book, but a minor case in it.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.