April 18, 1961 - The Eagle River Incident

The time was approximately 11:00am on April 18, 1961, when Joe Simonton was attracted outside by a peculiar noise similar to "knobby tyres on a wet pavement." Stepping into his yard, he faced a silvery saucer-shaped object brighter than chrome which appeared to be hovering close to the ground without actually touching it. The object was about twelve feet high and thirty feet in diameter. A hatch opened about five feet from the ground, and Simonton saw three men inside the machine. One of them was dressed in a black two-piece suit. The occupants were about five feet in height. Smooth shaven, they appeared to "resemble Italians." They had dark hair and skin and wore outfits with turtleneck tops and knit helmets. One of the men held up a jug apparently made of the same material as the saucer. His motions to Joe Simonton seemed to indicate that he needed water. Simonton took the jug, went inside the house, and filled it. As he returned, he saw that one of the men inside the saucer was "frying food on a flameless grill of some sort." The interior of the ship was black, "the colour of wrought iron." Simonton, who could see several instrument panels, heard a slow whining sound, similar to the hum of a generator. When he made a motion indicating he was interested in the food that was being prepared, one of the men, who was also dressed in black but with a narrow red trim along the trousers, handed him three cookies, about three inches in diameter and perforated with small holes. The whole affair had lasted about five minutes. Finally, the man closest to the witness attached some kind of belt to a hook in his clothing and closed the hatch in such a way that Simonton could scarcely detect its outline. Then the object rose about twenty feet from the ground before taking off straight south, causing a blast of air that bowed some nearby pine trees. Along the edge of the saucer, the witness recalls, were exhaust pipes six or seven inches in diameter. The hatch was about six feet high and thirty inches wide, and although the object has always been described as a saucer, its shape was that of two inverted bowls. When two deputies sent by Sheriff Schroeder, who had known Simonton for fourteen years, arrived on the scene, they could not find any corroborative evidence. The sheriff affirmed that the witness obviously believed the truth of what he was saying and talked very sensibly about the incident.

Source - Book - Passport to Magonia - Jacques Vallee


 Here we have a famous UFO report that includes the trade and consumption of food. In the past five hundred years of UK folklore at least, faeries and other otherworldly creatures would often offer their human witnesses food of some sort, and often ask for assistance with mundane tasks, like asking for some milk, or requesting the humans not to build on certain places where the faeries lived underground. These types of cases suggest that UFOs and "alien creatures" have their source somewhere other than with the extraterrestrial hypothesis.