From "Sooner Saucers: Oklahoma UFO's 1947 to 1969" (2020):
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| 1947 image - Phoenix, AZ |
The summer of 1947 is often cited as the start of the ‘saucer craze’ but in truth the year started off with a high degree of odd things seen flitting around in the skies – everywhere.
SIGHTINGS OF 1947
What follows is a collection of sightings garnered from newspapers, books, and records for the sightings prior to the summer of 1947 and the Arnold and Roswell cases.
Jan 16, 1947 – Norfolk, England, Project Sign Incident # 54 [will be classed as an aircraft]
April – France. Disk with cupola
April – Richmond, VA. Silver disc with dome
May 5 – Washington State. Silvery object fell from sky & disintegrated
May 17 – Oklahoma City, 8:30-9:00 pm Field Engineer Savage saw a frosty white, round and flat object, with diameter/thickness ration of 10:1; size of a B-29 (140 ft.), traveling N at 350 degrees at 10,000-18,000 ft.; 3x jet speed (or 1,800 mph); slight ‘swishing sound’ (Source was NICAP)
May 18 – Richmond, VA –flat white object cigar shaped moved N-W
May 19 – Manitou Springs, Colorado, Silvery object halted, danced, flew against the wind
June 10 – Douglas, AZ, a spherical light rose up to disappear into the sky 11 p.m.
June 10 – Hungary, silver balls
June 12- Weiser, ID, ‘chain of lights/UFO’s’
June 14- Over Bakersfield, CA at 2 pm triangular formation of saucer shapes (10 of them) (in plane)
June 21 – 11:50 am, 8 discs near Spokane, Washington. Fell with a ‘falling leaf motion” [note this term appears elsewhere in some reports as late as 1965].
June 21 – Yukon, OK. 6 objects like upside down wash tubs (domed silver shape) high and moving fast
June24 – Arnold sighting in Washington State (Project Sign Incident # 17); Fred John sighting in Cascade Mountains of 6 discs; 3) light blue and purple lights performed aerobatics over Seattle. [Note the purple lights – very rare and seen in 1965 Damon, TX]
June 27- Formation of discs, wavering, and changing formation over Cascade Mts.
June 28- Lake Mead, NV, 5-6 white discs seen 2 p.m. [Will be classed as a balloon]
June 28 – Rockfield, IA 3:45 p.m.
June28 – Montgomery Al, Maxwell AFB, 9:30 p.m. object observed and made a 90 degree turn
June 29- White Sands – Silver disk
June 29 – Des Moines, IA, 4:45 5 UFOs white, oval, N-W direction
June 30 – Portland, OR, 5 shiny silver disks like a hubcap
June 30 – White Sands, NM, Navy pilot, 9:10 a.m., 2 gray spheres appeared to land south of Grand Canyon.
July 2 – Roswell, NM area – objects observed, oval, inverted saucer shapes [dating from UFO Crash at Roswell, 1991 by Randle and Schmitt]
July – Tempe, AZ (case file missing) ‘insufficient data’
July 4 – Emmett, Idaho, United Airlines Capt. reported 9 circular objects, merged, split and disappeared. Classed as Unidentified.
July 4 – Twin Falls, ID 35 discs, afternoon
July 4 – 800 sightings, by 400 people in 24 states. ½ single objects; ½ in formation; 2/3 daylight sighting; shapes round, spherical, disc.
July 6 – Clay Center, Ks. Later explained as a solar flare.
July 7 – Brighton, Sussex, UK
July 7 – Phoenix, AZ (Project Blue Book Incident # 40 in 1947-07-9669017). Gray, elliptical 20-30 ft. moving NE to West, speed about 400-600 mph, altitudes Est. at 2000-5000 ft. sound like a jet approaching. The file is 55 pgs. “Probably a hoax” is penciled in but the file contained a photo of the object (Declassified photos Program No. 6-109) 12 June 1952; photos turned over to 4th AF Intelligence July of 1947. Note in the file includes leads to investigate the photograph and a letter indicating the photos had not been returned to the person.
July 7 – Del Salton Observatory, Chile
July 7 – Naples, Italy
July 7 – Japan
July 7 – Holland
July 8 – Murdoc Field (now Edwards), 3 silver colored UFO’s heading West. At 9:20 am armed a Republic XP-84 Thunder- jet when a yellow-white sphere was seen moving against the wind. Unidentified.
July 8 – White Sands, NM 11:50 a.m. white, clear, alum object
July 8 – South of Muroc, California 3:50 p.m. piloted sighted a wingless, light reflecting, object too high for his Mustang to close the gap and moving into the distance
July 8 – Ft. Worth photos with “Roswell Saucer”
July 23 – NJ, strange craft observed
July 23 – Brazil
Aug 4 – Bethel, Alaska (Northwest of there) (Incident # 68) Notation ‘no astronomical explanation. Similarity to Incident # 10, in which several objects silhouetted against the sunset, is striking.”
Aug 13 – Twin Falls, ID, sky blue plate object
Aug 13 – Ravello, Italy, a disc and beings 3 feet tall with large heads, large eyes, and 8 taper like fingers.
Note, by September – the Air Force was “forced to take official cognizance of the “flying discs…increasing demand from the public for an explanation”; begin using term “Unidentified Aerial Objects “or UAO. [From Project Blue Book report documents]. General Nathan Twining will write his communication of the situation, common descriptions, etc. Ultimately, this report (along with others possibly) will be largely dismissed by General Hoyt Vanderburgh, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. He publicly minimized the import of the subject and numerous times publicly minimize the subject matter and those reporting recommendation of September 23, 1947, categorically stating “the phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious." A tug-of-war, of sorts, was going on in the Air Force (and other military units) as to the strange objects being manmade or “interplanetary craft.” The Air Force as the agency charged with knowing what was in the skies felt especially pressured. Twinging’s superior General George Schulgen will repeat his comments in his own report and send it out as general them.
Everybody had a theory..."
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