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Sighting record / 1942

Welles Bridge Falling Object Sighting, 1942

c. 1942 · Welles Bridge, Route 17 between Horseheads and Big Flats, Chemung County, New York, United States
19Thinly documented UAP Other 9 sources

September 1942. America is at war. Late at night on Route 17, between Horseheads and Big Flats in upstate New York, at least 7 people watched something come down out of the sky. It looked like a clouded moon with one side cut off. It fell at the speed of a parachute. The alarm spread fast. Police from Corning, State police from Watkins Glen and Ithaca, and the FBI searched the area. Off-duty guards at the Eclipse Plant were called in at 1:45am. Two planes circled overhead. Nothing was found.

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Context

September 1942. The United States was at war, and the home front was nervous. Three months earlier, German saboteurs had landed by U-boat at Amagansett, Long Island, under Operation Pastorius. Six of them were executed on 8 August 1942.

Sources (9, most influential first)

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