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Date
Location
Witnesses
Description
Jan. 11, 1958
Vista, Calif.
Student
Parent Object (spindle-shaped) 8-10 smaller dropped from it, hovered, all disappeared upward.
March 3, 1958
nr Marshall, Texas
Family
Two Parent Objects (bright lights) 6-7 smaller lights clustered and moved around stationary large ones.
Sept. 10, 1960
N. Scituate, Mass.
Store Proprietors
Parent Object (dark cigar) with two large discs apparently resting on top; 3 in cluster flying nearby.
Oct. 4, 1960
Cressy, Launce-ton, Australia
Minister & wife
Parent Object (cigar with vertical bands) 5-6 smaller discs. Parent object descended from clouds, followed in about 2 minutes by discs, which stopped around cigar; finally rose rapidly in clouds.
May 3, 1961
Toonpang, N.S.W., Australia
5 men
Parent Object (round, domed) 4 small silvery v-shaped objects left and returned to parent object after maneuvering around at high speed.
June 4, 1961
Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.
Librarian
Parent Object (cigar or long ellipse) and cluster of smaller hovering objects; small objects streaked toward parent object, and all moved out of sight behind trees.
NOTES
1. Witnesses interviewed by NICAP Board Member Frank Edwards: Cecil Bridge, fireman; Harry Eckman, engineer; Morris Ott, head brakeman; Paul Soshey, flagman; and Ed Robinson, conductor.
2. True Magazine, March 1950. (Case confirmed by Capt. (then Cdr.) Robert B. McLaughlin, USN, head of Navy missile tracking crew.)
3. Interview report by Walter N. Webb, NICAP Adviser, on file at NICAP.
4. Life Magazine, April 17, 1952, from Air Force Intelligence Report.
5. Ruppelt, Edward J., Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Doubleday, 1956, p. 38.
6. Flying, July 1950 (including pilot’s sketch). See also Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 22, 1950.
7. Monthly Weather Review, March 1904.
8. Baker, Robert M. L., Jr., “Analyses of Photographic Material; Photogrammetric Analysis of the Utah Film Tracking UFOs,” p. 2. (Copy on file at NICAP.)
9. Flying, July 1950; Life Magazine, July 21, 1947.
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