She Woke Up to UFOs Outside Her Window w/ Zelia Edgar

Summary

In October 1973, during a major Ohio UFO wave, a Covedale woman woke at 2:30 a.m. to find twinkling blue and silver lights hovering outside her trailer and a gray, faceless, ape-like figure standing near a glowing bell-jar-shaped object. At the same moment, a nearby warehouse fire alarm was tripped by an unexplained electrical surge. Host Zelia Edgar examines the case investigated by Leonard Stringfield and links it to Celtic fairy lore and to the idea that paranormal encounters single out particular witnesses.

Key takeaways

• 1The 'Bell Jar Beastie' encounter took place around 2:30 a.m. on October 21, 1973, in a Covedale, Ohio trailer park and was witnessed by 48-year-old Mrs. R. Heitfeld.
• 2She saw about six self-luminous blue and silver lights hovering four feet off the ground that cast no light on their surroundings, then a gray, featureless, neckless ape-like figure with a snout entering a 15-foot glowing 'bell jar' object.
• 3A nearby warehouse fire alarm was tripped at exactly 2:27 a.m. by an unexplained electrical surge, according to Fire Marshal Robert Miller.
• 4Three Lebanon patrol officers reportedly tailed a UFO for six miles on October 14, 1973, during the wider Ohio UFO flap.
• 5The next day Heitfeld collected trace evidence: a plastic disc, a broken tile, and a swirled powdery ash.
• 6Edgar compares the case to W.Y. Evans-Wentz's 'The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries,' where a circle of light containing tiny beings vanished at a loud noise, and to the Lund family case from the Missoula UFO flap.

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Excerpt from Somewhere in the Skies, Oct 9, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.