When he did so, the object took off skyward at a high rate of speed. Schirmer returned to his station with a severe headache and an inexplicable red welt behind his ear.

He drank two steaming hot cups of coffee and logged the event: "Saw a flying saucer at the junction of highways 6 and 63. Believe it or not."

Schirmer was hypnotized by Sprinkle, and more details came out. Hypnotic sessions revealed that he had followed the craft down a dirt road, where it had landed. He had tried to call for help, but his radio would not work. He found himself unable to draw his revolver or to drive away. The occupants of the craft came and took him aboard, and communicated with him through some form of mental telepathy.

They told him that they would visit him twice more and that some day he would "see the universe". They then gave him something similar to a post-hypnotic suggestion that he would forget the things he had seen, and returned him to his car. \

Schirmer was interviewed by the Condon Committee, but not much publicity was given to his experience.