Sighting record / 1950
March 20, 1950. A Chicago & Southern Airlines DC-3 was flying west from Memphis toward Little Rock. The night was dark and clear. Near Hazen, Arkansas, Captain Jack Adams saw a lighted, fast-moving object. "My God, what's that?" His first officer, G.W. Anderson Jr., answered. "Oh no, not one of those things!" A circular craft swept across their path in an arc, about 1,000 feet above them. Soft, fuzzy lights glowed from ports on its underside. A blue-white light flashed on top. Then it flew straight on to the north and was gone. Project Blue Book filed it as Unidentified.
Captain Jack Adams did not believe in flying saucers. He was 31, with 7,000 flight hours and seven years on the airline, while his first officer, G.W. Anderson Jr., was 30, with 6,000 hours. Adams called himself "a skeptic all my life". Monday, March 20, 1950, they were flying a Chicago & Southern Air Lines DC-3 on the scheduled run from Memphis to Little Rock. They were heading west at 2,000 feet under a dark, clear sky.