A Witness Watched a Nearly Motionless Light Vanish Beyond the Horizon

A bus passenger reported a bright object in the sky high over Sand Point Naval Air Station, slightly to the south; no other passenger observed it. Reported via OSI to the FBI.

The object

Bright object; extreme brightness drew attention

A design supervisor wrote the FBI describing observing a bright shimmering speck at very high altitude through a 30-power telescope while target-shooting; the object held position then darted off and finally moved east, disappearing below the horizon in about 10 seconds.

Sensors

30-power telescope · naked eye

The object

Bright shimmering speck/disk; writer concluded it was a transparent-plastic radar-target balloon

Gail Plock, supervisor of a local ground observer group at Pasco, reported via 20th OSI two half-moon shaped objects about six times as large as a half moon at roughly 1000 feet altitude, observed for about ten minutes.

Witnesses

Gail Plock

The object

Two white half-moon shaped objects; one formed into a large fireball, the other into two fireballs

Per a Tacoma News Tribune item relayed by Colonel Raynor of OSI, a transit driver for the Tacoma bus company reported seeing a flying saucer over Tacoma the previous night.

The object

Flying saucer

An unidentified flying object was picked up by the radar station at Neah Bay between 1930 and 1945, at 1500-1000 feet altitude. McChord Field scrambled fighters that picked up the blip for 8-12 minutes before it faded from the scopes at high airspeed; the 25th Air Division submitted a report to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson.

Sensors

Neah Bay radar · airborne radar

The object

Radar blip moving at high airspeed

Outcome

Report submitted to Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Field

An intelligence summary from the 25th Air Division to the Air Technical Intelligence Center describes multiple unknown radar targets tracked on TIMOTHY radar and pursued by fighters on combat air patrol; the blips/targets were tentatively evaluated as true targets resembling B-36 or B-58 type aircraft.

Sensors

TIMOTHY radar · airborne radar

The object

Unknown radar targets at ~200 knots / 15 angels, estimated capable of Mach One or better pullout

Raymond Kent reported an unidentified object with no definite form and a silver glow heading south parallel to the coast at 45 degrees elevation; he said the Air Force at Boeing Field treated his report as a joke and told him to call the FBI.

Witnesses

Raymond Kent

The object

Object with no definite form, silver glow

About a year before his 1955 report, Sgt. Gordon Richardson observed a large shining metal ball roughly 30 feet in diameter swoosh in from the west at low altitude (200-300 feet), come to a complete stop, then depart at extreme speed. It left a tail of fire that ceased when it stopped, and while stationary made a 'chug chug' engine sound.

Witnesses

Sgt. Gordon Richardson

The object

Perfectly spherical, shiny metal ball about 30 feet in diameter; tail of fire; audible engine sounds

The U.S. Coast Guard reported unidentified objects that were later determined to be Mark-Six aircraft flares; most were destroyed by a demolition squad and a coastal search was conducted for additional flares.

The object

Objects determined to be Mark-Six aircraft flares

Outcome

Identified as aircraft flares; destroyed by demolition squad

Albert Cressy reported, while fishing, observing what appeared to be a disc over the water to the west; through binoculars he saw one large disc-like object with six smaller objects flying away from it. The FBI passed the report to OSI at McChord.

Witnesses

Albert Cressy

The object

One large disc and six smaller objects flying away from it

A Mercer Island woman reported observing a man in neat sun tans on the beach who disappeared, accompanied by a series of brilliant flashes; she described a man in a helicopter apparently attaching a rope, and heard a whistling sound like a sky rocket.

The object

Brilliant flashes, a helicopter, a man on the beach who disappeared

A Seattle Times clipping and report describe a housewife (about 30) observing an object approach across the sky; she heard no sound. OCR of this page is heavily degraded.

The object

Object moving across the sky, silent