Horace Burns

Horace Burns, an American civilian from Virginia, gained prominence in UFO lore as a key witness in the 1965 Waynesboro incident. On December 21, 1965, while driving along Highway 250 near Waynesboro, he encountered a landed UFO that stalled his car, marking the onset of a regional wave of sightings involving landings and humanoid figures. Military personnel, including Sergeants Dave Moody and Harold Jones, investigated on behalf of Project Blue Book, initially deeming Burns credible and the object unlike any known aircraft. However, their final report dismissed the event as a hallucination, ridiculing it as a 'traveling beehive,' prompting Burns and associate Ernest Gan to accuse the Air Force of a cover-up. A corroborating witness and reports of electromagnetic disturbances, including dimming lights, supported his account, as noted in local media like the Richmond Times-Dispatch. No birth or death dates are documented; Burns contributed no known publications but provided pivotal eyewitness testimony.