{
"Scully Timeline" : [
{
  "date" : "1/7/1947",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Examiner_. **SKY OBJECT A MYSTERY ROCKET?** A laboratory analysis of the cylindrical object which fell in Portland yesterday from a clear sky established the presence of aluminum, titanium, magnesium, calcium, chrome, and zircon. Dr. John E. Allen, chief geologist of the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, said it gives a reasonable basis for the hypothesis that it could have been used in rocket construction. The largest portion of the object has been taken over by an Army investigator for examination. The object was found when a mysterious ice shower occurred Saturday, confined to a fifteen-foot square area of Hill Military Academy.",
  "location" : "Portland, OR",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_1",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1947",
  "desc": "**IRAN REPORTS BORDER EXPLOSIONS.** Strong, starlike bodies were seen at this point and also at Shosef and Saebishheh, near the Afghan frontier. After cavorting about the sky, the objects exploded loudly, leaving only a cloud of smoke.",
  "location" : "Abadan, Iran",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_2",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1947",
  "desc": "**THEY MOVE INTO IDAHO.** Dave Johnson, aviation director of the _Idaho Stateman_, while flying at 14,000 feet, west of Boise, saw a circular object bank in front of a cloud formation for 45 seconds. It rose sharply and jerkily toward the top of a towering bank of clouds, then turned  its edge toward him, appearing as a straight black line, and shot straight up. It moved fast, and was very large. Three Idaho National Guardsmen had seen a similar object in the same area as Johnson.",
  "location" : "Boise, Idaho",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_3",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1947",
  "desc": "_The Arizona Republic_. **ARIZONA PHOTOGRAPHS THEM.** The first clearly recorded photograph of what is believed to be a flying disk was taken today by an amateur Phoenix photographer, William Rhodes, as it circled north of the city. Rhodes shot the picture as the slow-flying object was approaching him. As it banked to make a right turn, he obtained this picture, showing clearly the shape of the disk. Rhodes said the object then shot away at high speed.",
  "location" : "Phoenix, Arizona",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_4",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1947",
  "desc": "**THEY TRY NEW JERSEY NEXT.** John H. Janssen, driving to Morristown Airport at 10 am, saw four objects in the sky and got out of his car to photograph them. They seemed to be about 10,000 feet in the air, flying rapidly in formation toward New York City. Three of the saucers were silvery white and the fourth was a dull, metallic color. As they disappeared, they put on a burst of speed far in excess of any jet plane Janssen had ever seen. Censorship the next day kept his photo out of most of the nation's dailies.",
  "location" : "Morristown, New Jersey",
  "time" : "10:00",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_5",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1947",
  "desc": "**COLLINS WON'T REPORT HIS TO PRESS.** Tom Collins, of Port Chester, N.Y., saw flying saucers over Burbank, California, where he was visiting his wife in the hospital having their third child. He told his wife about the sighting, but never reported seeing them because the press was making such saucer-sighters look ridiculous.",
  "location" : "Burbank, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_6",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1947",
  "desc": "**TEXAS SEES ONE CHANGE IN SHAPE?** Mr. and Mrs. Jim Reid, Owen Fletcher, Dock Mennington and Bob Patterson saw an object in the sky at about 10 p.m. in the shape of an luminous disk. It was larger and faster than a plane. It maneuvered in the sky for twenty minutes and then took off in the direction of San Angelo. In fifteen minutes it returned, this time in the shape of a long log. The sky was clear with no clouds. The nearest searchlight was 100 miles away. It continued its capers for more than half an hour. Finally, it took off on the shape of a long cigar with a thin smokey trail and vanished in the distance.",
  "location" : "Robert Lee, Texas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_7",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1947",
  "desc": "**WOMAN WATCHES ONE DISAPPEAR AND REAPPEAR.** Mrs. Jay Engel saw a flying disk at sundown. She saw a flash darting across the sky, then another flash. It disappeared for a few seconds, then reappeared further away. It was traveling at a great rate of speed and was not particularly bright, appearing to be an orange-colored glow.",
  "location" : "Upton, Wyoming",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_8",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1947",
  "desc": "**SHANGLES' PHOTO SHOWS LITTLE.** Charles Shangle - likely Charles W. Shangle Jr. - was watching the sky when he saw a luminous object traveling slowly through the air at great height. He photographed it. It is visible in the upper left-hand corner of the photo as a faint gray dot surrounded by a slight halo effect. The reproduction is poor, showing almost nothing but the truck in the foreground.",
  "location" : "Boise, ID",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_9",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1947",
  "desc": "**SAUCER SHINES LIKE DISHPAN.** E. L. Lynn, 1040 Knox Ave., saw a large black object the size of the moon. It turned from very black to light yellow, then a pale pink. Finally, it began to shine like a very bright tin pan. It was about 20 miles distant and two miles high, was in view for five or six seconds and traveled about five times as fast as an ordinary airplane.",
  "location" : "Bellingham, Washington",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_10",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1947",
  "desc": "_Toronto Globe_. **CANADA TRIED PHOTOGRAPHING THEM.** A photo of a supposed flying saucer is given front-page coverage on the _Globe_, taken by Raymond Johnson of Toronto. Disk was yellow with a tail, the time of passage was fifteen seconds. An extremely poor reproduction shows a ship in the foreground with a saucer resembling a faint comet in the background.",
  "location" : "Toronto, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_11",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1947",
  "desc": "**50 WITNESSES SEE ONE IN CANADA.** More than 50 townspeople saw a strange object swoop into sight from the south, remain stationary for fifteen minutes, then flash back in the direction from which it had come. It was described as a long streak of fire with heat waves emanating from it and something that looked like an electric light waves.",
  "location" : "Hymers, Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_12",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1947",
  "desc": "**FOUR SEE ONE ABOVE PERSIAN GULF.** Richard Carruthers, Jr., aboard the tanker _Chipola_, saw eight round objects flying in a group, pass within half a mile of the ship, make a climbing turn in echelon formation, and pass out of sight. Four persons saw the light, but opinions varied as to whether they were white or blue.",
  "location" : "Persian Gulf",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_13",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1948",
  "desc": "_The Emmet Messenger_. **THEODOLITE MEASURES ONE NEAR BOISE.** E.G. Hall of Boise made a theodolite observation of a flying saucer, estimating its size as that of a small plane. Along its back edge was no trail, but there was a fuzziness there. The craft was silent, even when coming closer than 2000 feet to the ground. This is the first known theodolite-measured and gauged reported viewing.",
  "location" : "Boise, Idaho",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_14",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1948",
  "desc": "**ONE SEEN BY PALM BEACH EDITOR.** Charles Francis Coe, editor of the _Palm Beach Times_, saw a ray or blob of lights sweeping in from the southwest over West Palm Beach at 2 PM. It curved over the Atlantic and headed northeast, in a wide arc, as though following the curve of the earth.",
  "location" : "West Beach, Florida",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_15",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1948",
  "desc": "**AIRFIELD TECHNICIAN SPOTS ONE.** Fred Granger, aircraft communicator stationed at the Seattle-Tacoma Airfield spotted what appeared to be four stars or lights with red and green flashes, approximately 25 degrees above the horizon.",
  "location" : "Seattle, Washington",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_16",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1948",
  "desc": "**CLERGYMAN AND EDITOR BOTH REPORT DAKOTA SIGHTING.** Rev. L.S. Eberly and his wife noticed a bright light which turned out to be a spheroid, dark in the center and radiating light rays near the outer rings. It was observed for an hour. On the following morning, a similar object appeared and Rev. Eberly called Robert Downs of the _Times-Record_ who also observed the phenomenon.",
  "location" : "VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_17",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1948",
  "desc": "**TWELVE REPORT ONE IN ALABAMA AT 900 MPH.** At 9:15 p.m. at least twelve persons saw a oval ball of fire, followed by about 400 feet of bluish-white flame. It seemed to be about half as big as the moon and some observers saw it as a cigar-shaped object with a red flame flaring into white at the tail. A Brookley Air Force base pilot estimated its speed as between 800 and 900 mph.",
  "location" : "Mobile, Alabama",
  "time" : "21:15",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_18",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "Summer 1948",
  "desc": "**BILLY ROSE REPORTS ONE FROM BROADWAY.** Billy Rose, newspaper columnist, visiting playwright Paul Osbourne in Newton, Connecticut, with Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Logan and Mr. and Mrs. John Hersey, noticed three searchlights poking into the air around 10:00 p.m. A few minutes later three objects appeared, about 200 ft. in diameter and flying at an altitude of 3,000 to 5,000 feet. The mysterious craft gave off a ghostly glow, dull bluish-white.",
  "location" : "Newton, Connecticut",
  "time" : "22:00",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_19",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1948",
  "desc": "**IDAHO REPORTS ONE HIDING BETWEEN CLOUDS.** Mr. and Mrs A.F. Kaus, of Carolina Beach, NC saw a huge ball of intense white light while traveling from Mountain Home to Boise, Idaho. The object was between two layers of clouds at approximately 2,000 ft. It flared twice, held steady for a few seconds, then disappeared. The light was round in shape with jagged edges.",
  "location" : "Boise, Idaho",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_20",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1948",
  "desc": "**WYOMING SEES ONE DIVIDE IN TWO.** Larry Griffin and Homer Grey of Osage, saw a huge shining object, luminous and shaped like a disk. It remained in view for two seconds, then divided into two parts and disappeared.",
  "location" : "Osage, Wyoming",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_21",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1949",
  "desc": "_Tucson Daily Citizen_. **B-29 FAILS TO CATCH FLYING SAUCER OVER TUCSON.** Cannonballing through the sky some 30,000 feet above the earth, a fiery object shot westward so fast it was impossible to gain any clear impression of its shape or size. It hovered over the city for a few moments and then shot off again with tremendous velocity. First Lt. Roy L. Jones gave chase in a B-29, but soon left behind as the craft sped toward California. Dr. Edwin F. Carpenter, head of the University of Arizona's department of astronomy, said he was certain the object was not a meteor or other natural phenomenon.",
  "location" : "Tucson, AZ",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_22",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1949",
  "desc": "**RADAR PICKS UP SAUCER ABOVE KEY WEST.** Two glowing objects were seen above the Naval Air Station, flying at great height. One plane was sent up to investigate, but was hopelessly outdistanced. Radarmen tracked the objects as they hovered for a moment above Key West. After a few seconds, the objects accelerated at high speed and streaked off.",
  "location" : "Boca Chica Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_23",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/29/1949",
  "desc": "**ILLINOIS SEES ONE DISINTEGRATE.** Ben Cole, Jr. of Northbrook, Illinois saw a flaming object hurtle out of the east at 6:11 a.m. and disintegrate in a fiery shower south of Chicago. At the same time, 40 miles away, Ed Maher of Chicago, saw a rocket half a block long speeding from east east to south. The front was shaped like a rocket, the tail seemed to fall to pieces as it dived into a large cloud. The craft made no noise.",
  "location" : "Chicago, Illinois",
  "time" : "06:11",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_24",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1949",
  "desc": "**COMBAT PILOT COMPARES SIZE TO WASHTUBS.** Residents of Bend saw two flying saucers reflecting the rays of the sun as they dipped through the clouds. Traffic was blocked by observers. World War II flyer, Vernon Leverett, estimated their height as over 10,000 feet and their size about that of a large washtub.",
  "location" : "Bend, Oregon",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_25",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/14/1949",
  "desc": "**MICHIGAN SEES ORANGE-COLORED SAUCER.** Clifford Cline, farmer in Branch County reported seeing a disk-shaped object with an orange center and a lighter outer edge.",
  "location" : "Branch County, Mich",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_26",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1949",
  "desc": "**WHITE SANDS SEES ONE WHILE CHECKING WEATHER BALLOON.** Scientists, reported by Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, USN, were tracking a balloon 57 miles northwest of the grounds, A strange object crossed above the balloon and was tracked with a theodolite. It was saucer-shaped, 105 feet in diameter and flying 50 miles above the earth at around 5 miles per second. Suddenly, it swerved, shooting upward at an angle of five degrees, climbing an additional 25 miles in almost 10 seconds. No exhaust trail, no lights, no sound.",
  "location" : "White Sands Proving Grounds",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_27",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1949",
  "desc": "**Project Saucer**/**Project Sign**: **PROSPECTOR SPOTS FIVE IN OREGON.** Fred M. Johnson, Portland prospector, told authorities he noticed a strange reflection in the sky and saw five or six discs about 30 ft. in diameter. He watched them through a telescope for about 30 seconds as they banked in the sun. He described them as being round with tails making no noise.",
  "location" : "Portland, OR",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_28",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1947",
  "desc": "From the Air Material Command, Wright Field's **Project Saucer**/**Project Sign** Report: Two pilots for a Bethel, Ala. flying service told investigators they spotted a huge black object, bigger than a C-54, silhouetted against the brilliant evening sky. In order to avoid collision, they said they pulled up to 1,200 feet and watched the object cross their path at right angles. The two pilots told of swinging in behind the object and following it to 170 mph until it outdistanced them and disappeared four minutes later. It was described as having no motors, wings, or visible means of propulsion, being smooth-surfaced and streamlined.",
  "location" : "Bethell, Ala",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_29",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1947",
  "desc": "From the Air Material Command, Wright Field's **Project Saucer**/**Project Sign** Report: Two officers told of seeing a spherical object about 10 feet in diameter flying through the air at tremendous speed, leaving no vapor trail.",
  "location" : "Fort Richardson, Alaska",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_30",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1948",
  "desc": "From the Air Material Command, Wright Field's **Project Saucer**/**Project Sign** Report: An Oklahoma City man reported spotting a saucer \"seeming to be the bulk of six B-29's.\" The observer, who holds a private pilot's license, spotted the objects from the ground. It was perfectly round and flat with no protrusions. He reported the speed of the soundless craft as \"probably three times that of a jet.\"",
  "location" : "Oklahoma City, OK",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_31",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1948",
  "desc": "From the Air Material Command, Wright Field's **Project Saucer**/**Project Sign** Report: Several observers reported a sky phenomenon described as \"round or oval, larger than a C-47, and traveling in level flight faster than 500 mph.\"",
  "location" : "Lockbourne Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_32",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1949",
  "desc": "**INDIANA SEES ONE DEFY PERSPECTIVE LAW.** Leon Faber of Sandwich, Ill., sighted a bright shining object moving east while he was flying up at an elevation of 6,000 feet over the Gary-Michigan City area. It seemed to be about 10,000 feet away and about the size of a basketball. It suddenly disappeared without getting any smaller.",
  "location" : "Gary, Indiana",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_33",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1949",
  "desc": "**CALIFORNIA SEES THEM AS 'SQUARES'.** Benjamin F. Smith of Oakland saw two rows of square objects flying in the regular airliner levels traveling from north to south, moving soundlessly at tremendous speed.",
  "location" : "Oakland, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_34",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/1949",
  "desc": "**COMMANDER CONFIRMS SIGHTING.** Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, USN, in a further report said that an object, white in color, proceeding slowly westward was sighted. It picked up speed, passed overhead and disappeared over the Organ Mountains. When first sighted, the object had been going at about one mile per second at a height of 25 miles, but when it accelerated it did so at a rate far beyond the capabilities of any present-day rocket. Passing within 5 degrees of the sun, it remained visible, showing no discernible method of propulsion.",
  "location" : "White Sands Proving Grounds",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_35",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/1949",
  "desc": "**KLINE CATCHES A LITTLE ONE.** Clifford M. Kline, Union City, was just leaving his barn on a clear evening at 7:40 when approximately 200 feet away, and nearly 6 feet off the ground, an oval object about 5ft by 4ft sped from northeast to southwest in a perfectly straight line with no noise and disappeared behind a fence row of shrubbery nearly a quarter of a mile away. The object was reddish-brown and fringed with white. Kline's observation was similar to a procession of hat-crown-shaped objects observed soaring over Skening, Sweden, May 1818, which were described as brown and caused the sun to turn brick-red.",
  "location" : "Union City, Michigan",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_36",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/17/1949",
  "desc": "**MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHS TRIANGLES.** Lloyd Sanders, Rt 1, Took a photo of a strange triangular object which was going at a tremendous rate of speed and glowed like the sun. There was a high-pitched, whining sound.",
  "location" : "Battle Creek Michigan",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_37",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1949",
  "desc": "**ENGLANG SEES THEM AS 'BLOBS'.** Two farmers reported they saw tailess blobs of light spinning across the heavens.",
  "location" : "Kent, England",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_38",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1949",
  "desc": "**VIRGINIA SEES SAUCER DOING THE REFLECTING.** C.S. Dupree saw a light reflected on the sidewalk, and on looking up saw a fast-moving, saucer-shaped object. It was not bright, but easily visible. Other sightings in the same vicinity were reported.",
  "location" : "Alexandria, Virgina",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_39",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1949",
  "desc": "**NINE WHIZ OVER PENNSYLVANIA.** Mr. and Mrs. George C. Wunsch of Tacony, Pennsylvania, and Mr. and Mrs. Barry McGuigan of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, saw nine strange disks with a dull illumination visible beneath the evening's cloud cover. They moved faster than an airliner but were clearly visible.",
  "location" : "Tacony, Pennsylvania",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_40",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1949",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Herald Express_. **HUGE MYSTERY PLANE OVER U.S.** Two Eastern Airline pilots, Capt. Cas Childs and Co-pilot J.B. Whitted, said they met a wingless two-deck plane early today southwest of Montgomery, Alabama. They said the strange ship with a blue glow underneath the fuselage and shooting red flames passed the EAL ship at 5,000 feet and headed towards New Orleans.",
  "location" : "Montgomery, AL",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_41",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1949",
  "desc": "**V-SHAPED OBJECTS OVER IDAHO.** A Boise aviator saw seven V-shaped objects flying within 1,500 or 2,000 feet of his plane. The objects, estimated to be about the size of fighter planes, flew at a tremendous rate of speed in a tight, but unfamiliar formation. They were in the shape of a 'V' with a solid, circular body under the nose of the 'V'. There was no evidence of any means of propulsion. They were observed for about two minutes.",
  "location" : "Boise, Idaho",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_42",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1949",
  "desc": "**THEY FLY UPSIDE DOWN IN NEBRASKA.** Dr. H.G. Lauback saw a saucer flying on a southwesterly course at 3:10 p.m., resembling an upside-down saucer whirling as it moved through the sky, occasionally tipping sideways at an altitude of between 5,000 and 7,000 feet. It was estimated to be about 25 feet in diameter and traveled about 25 ground miles in three minutes.",
  "location" : "Mitchell, Nebraska",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_43",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1949",
  "desc": "**MONTANA NOTES THEIR SILENCE.** Edgar Thompson saw a bright silver disk-shaped object heading towards Butte at a terrific speed. It traveled noiselessly in a straight line.",
  "location" : "Deer Lodge, Montana",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_44",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/7/1949",
  "desc": "**KANSAS OBSERVES THEIR 'FLIP'.** Delmar Remick and Erwin Legg of Osborne, saw a flying saucer in the air, a mile up and moving northwest, rapidly takin six or seven seconds to get out of sight. It moved with a little flip every half second.",
  "location" : "Osborne, Kansas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_45",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1950",
  "desc": "**MAJORITY BELIEVE IN FLYING SAUCERS.** More than 61 percent of Americans believe in flying saucers, according to a poll of opinion taken by Galaxy, the science-fiction magazine. Another 17 percent didn't believe they exist, while 32 percent were uncertain. The younger age group was more inclined to believe in saucers than older people.",
  "location" : "Kvalleposten, Malmo, Sweden",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_46",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/21/1950",
  "desc": "_The New York Times_. **BOSTON PITCHES FOR MORE INVESTIGATION.** The Aero Club of New England, a 49-year-old organization dating back to the ballooning days, has asked the Air Force to reopen its investigation into \"flying saucers\" and other unknown aircraft. A letter to Thomas K. Finletter, Air Force Secretary, made public today, termed the discontinuance of the \"saucer\" investigation as \"premature and regrettable.\"",
  "location" : "New England",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_47",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1950",
  "desc": "**TELEPHONE TROUBLESHOOTER SEES ONE OFF CANADIAN COAST.**. Pat Walsh, telephone company electrician and Navy veteran, reported seeing a tear-shaped object, bright as a fluorescent light, for twelve seconds before it headed out to sea in an arch-like flight at incredible speed.",
  "location" : "St. John's, Newfoundland",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_48",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/1950",
  "desc": "_Fate Magazine_. **NAVY DOES NOT SWALLOW OWN LINE.** A few months before the Navy spokesman,  Dr. Brener Liddell issued his report that flying saucers were all balloons. _Naval Aviation News_, an official Navy magazine, reported the sighting of two mysterious smoke-trailing objects by an American airship off Korea. The incident occurred in December of 1949, and personnel aboard the seaplane tender _Gardiners Bay_ reported that the two objects struck the water at tremendous speed off the ship's port bow while it was steaming up the channel from Inchon. Under the title \"Sighting Flying Disks Again?\", the Navy magazine reported: \"Two huge columns of smoke rose to about 100 feet in height at the point of contact. No aircraft could be sighted by radar, or visually overhead, although the ceiling was unlimited. Identification remains a great mystery.\"",
  "location" : "Korea",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_49",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1950",
  "desc": "**CHILE STILL HOARDS ITS PIX.**. Commander Augusto Vars Orrego, head of the Chilean Antarctic Base of Arthur Prat, saw, on several occasions during the Antarctic night, flying saucers, one above the other, turning at tremendous speeds. Photographs were taken.",
  "location" : "Santiago, Chile",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_50",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/1950",
  "desc": "_Air Force Magazine_. **CALLING HERR GENERAL FREUD.** \"It is concluded,\" the most recent official Air Force report states, \"that there are sufficient psychological explanations for the reports of unidentified flying objects to provide plausible explanations not otherwise explainable. These errors in identifying real stimuli result chiefly from the inability to estimate speed, distance, and size.\"",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_51",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1950",
  "desc": "**MEXICAN OBSERVATORY PHOTOGRAPHS ONE.** Luis Enrique Erro, head of the Tonantzintla Observatory near Puebla, reports an object flew through space and crossed the field of his Schmidt telescope. Luis Munch, fellow astronomer, photographed the object, which showed as a broad white streak diagonally across a jet black field. The craft appeared to be about the diameter of the moon and at least as bright.",
  "location" : "Mexico City",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_52",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1950",
  "desc": "**WEST CANADA CATCHES SIGHT OF THREE.** F. Arnold Richards, civic employee, saw objects with a bluish-white flame shooting out of the wide end. He reported three in all.",
  "location" : "Edmonton, Alberta",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_53",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/1950",
  "desc": "**THREE MEXICAN OFFICIALS SEE ONE.** Robert Antorena, Amilcar Lopez Sousa and Manuel Espejo, customs and border officials, saw a top-like disk traveling high in the sky and headed towards El Paso.",
  "location" : "Juarez, Mexico",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_54",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/1950",
  "desc": "**NEW AND OLD MEXICO REPORT SIGHTINGS THE SAME DAY.** Luis Herrera, travel agency owner, saw a strange, disk-shaped object over the city for fifteen minutes. At the same time, John E. Baird of El Paso saw an object shaped like a globe, near Deming, New Mexico.",
  "location" : "Juarez, Mexico",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_55",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1950",
  "desc": "**AIRPORT WEATHER EXPERT SEES FOUR IN MEXICO.** Santiago Smith, chief weather observer for the Mexico City Airport trained a telescope at an object shaped like a half-moon, one of four flying bodies crossing the airport at 35,000 to 45,000 feet.",
  "location" : "Mexico City, D.F.",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_56",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1950",
  "desc": "**MONTEREY SEES ONE MAKE QUICK TURNS.** Francisco Martinez Soto, government airport inspector, saw an object moving in a straight line and changing its altitude by one and a half degrees in three minutes.",
  "location" : "Monterey, Mexico",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_57",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/16/1950",
  "desc": "**ONTARIO REPORTS ONE PLAYING TAG.** Paul Repai, Mr. and Mrs. Andre Hertal and Steve Fodor saw a flying saucer at 4 am moving in jerks as if controlled, faster than a jet. It seemed bigger and duller when moving, smaller and brighter when still. It swished from side to side and hovered up and down, then it suddenly rose sharply and disappeared.",
  "location" : "Delhi, Ontario",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_58",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/16/1950",
  "desc": "**SWISS IN PERU REPORTS ONE TAKE 5-MINUTE REST.** Julian Guardiola, Swiss Engineer, saw a disk flying from the south giving off a red and yellow glow. It stopped directly above them at about 4500 feet and remained for about five minutes. It then flew southward at tremendous velocity.",
  "location" : "Miraflores, Peru",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_59",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/16/1950",
  "desc": "**LANSING M.D. FILMS ONE ONE IN MEXICO.** Dr. W.C. Behen, of Lansing, Michigan, made both photographs and movies of a double truncated cone, silver in color, and eight or nine thousand feet in the air. The object disappeared from time to time, but would reappear to hover over one area for several minutes.",
  "location" : "San Jose Purua, Mexico",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_60",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1950",
  "desc": "**PENNSY M.D. SKETCHES HOW HIS OPERATED.** UP -- Dr. Craig Hunter, 47 of Berkeley Springs, WV, made a rough sketch of a flying saucer he saw at dusk Wednesday in the hope that it might help clear up the mysterious phenomena. The object appeared to be about 50 to 100 feet in diameter and was about 25 to 30 feet thick in the center. A streamer about 200 feet long and 10 inches wide trailed. The disk seemed to be constructed in three concentric partitions. The outer edge, which was 10 feet wide, appeared to be stationary and had slits covering about one-third of the area visible to him. Immediately in from the leading edge were two apertures about 4 and a half feet square. The second circle seemed to be the only part of the thing moving and it rotated with a great hissing whistle. Inner and largest part of the disk was also stationary. It was a dirty metallic color and definitely not an airplane.",
  "location" : "Altoona, Pennsylvania",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_61",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1950",
  "desc": "**8 FLYING SAUCERS SPOTTED OVER LAGUNA.** UP -- Flying saucers have been spotted again, this time along the California coast by Dudley Gourley, 26, an Army aircraft observer for nearly three years. He said he saw the saucers moving slowly out to sea as he drove past El Moro on the coast highway.",
  "location" : "Laguna Beach, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_62",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1950",
  "desc": "**PICARD FORMS LIDDEL OF BALLOONATIC FRINGE.** Dr. Jean Picard, University of Minnesota scientist and pioneer in balloon ascent work, suggested in an interview with United Press that some \"flying saucers\" may be experimental balloons being sent up into the stratosphere by General Mills in cooperation with several universities and under contract with the Navy.",
  "location" : "Minnesota",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_63",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1950",
  "desc": "**FLYING SAUCER NEAR PENTAGON.** UP -- A flying saucer has been reported almost in the backyard of the Air Force, the service that says the mysterious disks don't exist. Bertram A. Totten, a veteran private pilot, said he sighted an aluminum-colored disk about 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick while he was flying over Fairfax County, Virginia, on the outskirts of Washington.",
  "location" : "Washington, D.C.",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_64",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1950",
  "desc": "**TULSA CHECKS IN WITH 25.** C.W. Hughes, 1338 N. Boston Place, Tulsa, sighted at 6:16 am, 25 flying saucers. The objects were silver-colored and flying at an elevation of 1000 feet.",
  "location" : "Tulsa, Oklahoma",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_65",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1950",
  "desc": "**VETERAN PILOTS RATE THEM SUPERSONIC.** Capt. Jack Adams, and co-pilot G.W. Anderson, Jr., veterans of 7000 and 6000 flying hours for the Chicago and Southern Air Lines, en route in their DC-3 from Memphis to Little Rock were within forty miles of Little Rock at 2,000 feet, they saw a lighted, fast-moving object about 1,000 feet above the DC-3 half a mile away and moving at a terrific speed: 700 to 1,000 m.p.h. They saw no reflection, exhaust, or vapor trail. It traveled in an arc, flashing a strong blue-white light.",
  "location" : "Little Rock, Arkansas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_66",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1950",
  "desc": "**HITLER STILL FLYING AROUND IN ONE?** Professor Giuseppe Belluzzo, a 73-year-old Italian turbine engineer, said today that designs for flying saucers were prepared for Hitler and Mussolini in 1942. Belluzzo said: \"It has crossed my mind that some great power is experimenting with flying disks—without explosives or atomic bombs. There is nothing supernatural or Martian about flying disks. It's just the most rational use of recently-evolved techniques.\" Belluzzo personally drafted plans for a \"flying disk\" 32 feet in diameter, but claimed they disappeared with Benito Mussolini when he fled to northern Italy in 1943.",
  "location" : "Rome, Italy",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_67",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1950",
  "desc": "**MEXICO SEES THEM SET AT SUNDOWN.** 300 flying disks were reported flying above the city. They began to disappear about sundown.",
  "location" : "Jalapa, Mexico, El Universal",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_68",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1950",
  "desc": "**FRANCE SIGHTS SAUCERS, TOO.** Flying saucers were reported to have been seen in two localities of France. Residents of Grenoble reported a metallic object which appeared to remain stationary high in the sky. Inhabitants of Chambéry reported a saucer-like object which left a stream of vapor.",
  "location" : "Grenoble and Chambéry, France",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_69",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1950",
  "desc": "_St. Paul's Dispatch_. **AIRMAN SEES BANANAS WITH SAUCERS.** Fort Worth AP: Ira Maxey, a veteran of 3,600 flying hours in the United States Air Force, said he saw six flying \"bananas\" plus a flying saucer. They were moving slowly and appeared to be six or seven miles away. He described the air objects as without tails or noses, not like a saucer but more like a banana. The pictures Maxey took showed they left vapor trails.",
  "location" : "St. Paul, Minnesota",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_70",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1950",
  "desc": "**TWA PILOTS SEE ONE GO BY ON EXPRESS LANE.** Capt. Robert Adickes and First Officer Robert Manning, TWA pilots, saw a round glowing mass in the air as they flew over South Bend. The object was in sight for six or seven minutes as it overtook their plane at 2,000 feet. It was round with no irregular features and about one-tenth as thick as it was round. They gave chase but were soon outdistanced.",
  "location" : "South Bend, Indiana",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_71",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1950",
  "desc": "**IOWA REPORTS ONE EXPLODING.** Louis and Wilfred Wedemyer of Mount Joy saw a round flat saucer-shaped object spinning across the sky. Suddenly it exploded in the air like a firework display. It seemed to disintegrate. No noise for a few seconds, then a low rumble that lasted half a minute. The same phenomenon was observed in Burlington and Muscatibe, Iowa.",
  "location" : "Mount Joy, Illinois",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_72",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1950",
  "desc": "_Bay Area Aviation News_, San Francisco. **COL FLYNN BELIEVE THEY ARE OURS.** A U.S. Air Force Reserve Colonel, Frank A. Flynn, talked in detail today of his encounter with a flight of more than a dozen \"flying saucers\". He said he is convinced that the objects he saw near Mount Diablo while flying his own plane from San Francisco to Sacramento in April of 1948, were controlled, experimental, American aircraft.",
  "location" : "Mount Diabo, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_73",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1950",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Examiner_. **WHEN IN ROME THEY FLY AS ROMANS.** Hundreds of persons on their way to work stopped to watch two flashing objects high over Rome's central piazza, Colonna. The two objects seemed to be a mile or more high and moved slowly. They appeared to be revolving on an axis and flashing at regular intervals, like smaller air beacons.",
  "location" : "Colonna, Rome",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_74",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1950",
  "desc": "**OREGONIAN GETS TWO ON FILM.** Paul Trent, Route 3, McMinnville, captured two photos of flying saucers in the backyard of his farm. The two pictures were taken about 50 seconds apart.",
  "location" : "McMinnville, Oregon",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_75",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1950",
  "desc": "**FIFTEEN WITNESSES CONFIRM MRS. SEEVERS' SIGHTING.** Mrs. Clyde Seevers, one of sixteen Montrose ranchers who saw two sky objects as broad as large airplane's wings, said the craft was absolutely round and smooth without windows, motors, or tail assembly. They flew soundlessly and seemed to float along, then suddenly soared up swiftly and disappeared. Her report was corroborated by fifteen other ranchers in the vicinity.",
  "location" : "Montrose, Colorado",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_76",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1950",
  "desc": "**RAF PILOT REPORTS SIGHTING, RADAR A 'BLIP'.** An RAF pilot radioed his base: \"Strange object seen. Looks like a flying saucer.\" Radar operators at the base picked up a strong \"blip\" on their screens. The air ministry withheld all information.",
  "location" : "London, England",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_77",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1950",
  "desc": "_The Oakland Tribune_. **THIS ONE DUSTS AIR FORCE BASE.** The UP said a \"disk-shaped object\" roaring at an estimated speed of 1000 to 1500 mph. made five passes near Hamilton Air Force Base today.",
  "location" : "Oakland, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_78",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1950",
  "desc": "**UNITED AIRLINES CREW SEES ONE 4 MILES UP.** Captain E. L. Remlin, First Officer David Stewart, and Observer Sam B. Wiper noticed a mysterious object while flying their UAL Main-liner at 14,000 feet between Las Vegas and Silver Lake about eight miles north of Baker, New Mexico. The craft had a bluish center with a bright orange tint and was flying horizontally at about 20,000 feet, faster than the plane, and about 20 miles away.",
  "location" : "Baker, New Mexico",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_79",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1950",
  "desc": "**POSTMAN SPOTS ONE WITH SATERN RING.** Hubert Hutt, a post office worker at Fort Collins, saw an object in the sky at 9:40 a.m. which appeared simultaneously with an airliner at about 3,000 feet elevation. It was at about 4,500 feet, traveling northwest, and resembled a silver snowball, circled by some kind of a ring. It was extremely maneuverable.",
  "location" : "Fort Collins, Colorado",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_80",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1950",
  "desc": "**CHIEF PILOT COLLIDES WITH ONE, UNHURT.** Jim Graham, chief pilot for Capital Aviation Co. of Springfield reported his plane was struck by a mysterious object resembling a blue streak with a tail of red flames. It was soundless and did not damage his plane.\"",
  "location" : "Springfield, Illinois",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_81",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1950",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Daily News_. **FOUR COUNTIES POLLED ON THIS ONE.** A strange, green light the center of which seemed to be just north of Orange County in California, was seen over four counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Riverside. Its light covered the greater part of Southern California south of the city of Los Angeles and north as far as Santa Monica Bay. Observers at San Diego reported that the whole sky was alight like a giant flash bulb. There was no sound.",
  "location" : "North of Orange County, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_82",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1950",
  "desc": "**NORTHWEST JOINS SOUTHWEST ON SIGHTING.** Another huge silent slow lit up the Pacific Coast from Salem, Oregon to Seattle, Washington today.",
  "location" : "Pacific Coast, US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_83",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1950",
  "desc": "**YUMA SIGHTING QUITS AT SIGHT OF DRUGSTORE.** William Schocke, Yuma, saw, along with dozens of others, a dark, disk-shaped object with a dim glow around its rim. When it reached a point just above a drugstore, it abruptly ceased lateral flight and slices straight upwards, disappearing behind low-hanging clouds.",
  "location" : "Denver, Colorado",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_84",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1950",
  "desc": "**TW JET PILOTS LOSE in 30 MILE CHASE.** Lt. Wilbert S. Rogers and Capt. Edward Ballard, Mitchell Field Air Force jet pilots, chased a mysterious round flying object for thirty miles and couldn't catch it. They estimated its speed at 900 mph. They sighted the object over Sandy Hook, New Jersey, while on a routine flight. It was silvery-white and about the size of a fighter plane traveling at 20,000 feet.",
  "location" : "Mitchell Field, New York",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_85",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/1950",
  "desc": "**BOY ASTRONOMER PHOTOGRAPHS ONE BY ACCIDENT.** Ivan Courtright, 14-year-old amateur astronomer set his camera at a six-hour exposure to photograph sky trails and accidentally obtained two photos. One of a saucer, when he clicked the shutter too soon, and the other a saucer trail taken on a longer exposure. The photo of the saucer coming right at the camera shows clearly the illuminated cloud surrounding it.",
  "location" : "Venice, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_86",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/1950",
  "desc": "**SAWBILLIES WATCH ONE LAND ON BAY.** F. A. Halstead of Duluth, Minn., and Ben Eyton, Editor of the _Steep Rocket Echo_, Ontario, reported the experience of a miner living in Antikokan who saw a flying saucer and a live crew in a cove of Sawbill Bay. They gave full details and told that they went back later with a camera and after a few days caught another saucer which spotted them and took off in a flash of green. There was There was a terrific high-pitched whine almost a blast, they explained, and then it was gone. One little figure that had been near the water's edge was only about halfway back when it took off. \"Our impression was that something fell off when the saucer was about halfway down the bay. For some reason, our motor took a fit of not wanting to start. After we did get it going, it began to run hot, which ruined our chances of pursuing the object.\"",
  "location" : "Saw Bill Bay, Minnesota",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_87",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1950",
  "desc": "_Citizens-News_. **MYSTERY SHIPS OVER COLORADO.** Hundreds of witnesses reported strange objects which hurtled across Colorado last night just east of the Rocky Mountains. Astronomy students and Air Force officials said they were not meteorites. All reports said the objects moved horizontally, unlike meteorites, and most trained observers placed their altitude at 3,000 feet. The CAA control tower at Peublo estimated their speed at about 1,000 mph. The speed of the objects was so fast that reports along the 200 mile path were almost simultaneous.",
  "location" : "Hollywood, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_88",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1950",
  "desc": "**'SAUCER' OVER ATOM CENTER.** UP - A Los Angeles construction worker has reported that a strange \"blinking object\" soared over a highly restricted area of the big atomic energy center last month. The object, which appeared to be at an altitude of 20,000 feet, flashed alternately bright and then black at intervals of two seconds. It was visible for three minutes and forty seconds.",
  "location" : "Denver, Col",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_89",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1950",
  "desc": "_Syracuse Post-Standard_. **TWO SIGHT SAUCER AT AIRPORT.** Allen Snyder and a companion, a city operations employee, who declined the use of his name, reported sighting a flying saucer three or four miles north of Hancock Field at an altitude of 2,500 feet. Snyder, a veteran airplane observer and employee of Northwest Airlines, said it seemed larger than a conventional plane and was traveling at a good rate. It was colorless, but the shape was not discernible. No flame or exhaust was observed.",
  "location" : "North of Hancock Field",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_90",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/1950",
  "desc": "_Syracuse Herald-Journal_. **LIFE INDICATED ON OTHER PLANETS.** AP - Dr. Harold C. Urey, internationally known physicist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry who helped develop the Atom bomb, told science students at the University of Miami that his study of the universe \"leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets.\" He said he doubted that the human race was the most intelligent form of life.",
  "location" : "Miami, FL",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_91",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1950",
  "desc": "**ENGLAND REPORTS ONE, SPEED 1000 MPH.** Four Pan-American Airways employees saw a brilliantly lighted object flying east to west in a straight line. Its speed was estimated at 1,000 mph, and the object was described as a bright white light, metallic colored, elongated, but as it went out of sight, spherical.",
  "location" : "Heathrow, England",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_92",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1950",
  "desc": "**CIGAR-SHAPED OBJECT LOAFS OVER ENGLISH TOWN.** Edward Leslie Docker, wholesale fruit dealer in Hindpool-Road, saw a huge disc-shaped object from the window of his office. aluminum in color, flying at about 4,000 feet and around 80 mph. It seemed to be at least 100 feet long.",
  "location" : "Barrow-in-Furness, England",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_93",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1950",
  "desc": "**C.E. SPOTS ONE OVER MANCHESTER TOWN?** P.D. Bell, a civil engineer saw a strange circular aircraft fly overhead at great speed. It was noiseless with a bright light on the underside.",
  "location" : "Didsbury, Manchester, England",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_94",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1950",
  "desc": "**SCRIBES SEE CIGAR-SHAPOED ONE OVER WASHINGTON.** Perry Torbergson and Jack Anderson, both on the editorial staff of the _Columbia Basin News_, watched an object in the sky for eight minutes. It was shining, cigar-shaped, and glistened brightly. It stopped and hung in the air over the Hanford atomic plant and then disappeared on a southwesterly course.",
  "location" : "Rasco, Washington",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_95",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1950",
  "desc": "**ALASKAN PILOT OBSERVES ONE BLOW UP.** G.C. Kelly, Reeves Airway pilot, approaching an airfield eight miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, saw an object overhead traveling at 100 miles per hour, so bright it was impossible to look at. Then there was an explosion and the object vanished.",
  "location" : "Fairbanks, Alaska",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_96",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1950",
  "desc": "_The New York Times_. **FLYING SAUCER OVER HUNGRY BRITAIN.** A mysterious \"flying sausage\" was reported over Jarrow-in-Burgess Tuesday. Two men, one a reputable businessman, described the object as a \"flying sausage with a dark outline and a transparent center.\" The object was traveling north at a fair speed both declared, and agreed there was no sound of motors.",
  "location" : "Jarrow in Burgess, Britain",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_97",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/10/1950",
  "desc": "_San Diego Union_. **NAVY DESTROYER CHASES MYSTERIOUS OBJECT.** The United States destroyer, _Blue_, searched the Pacific Ocean off Southern California trying to track down a mysterious \"unidentified object.\" A Navy report said the _Blue_ picked up the object on its radar screen and was trying to close in on it to identify it. No mention was made of what, when, how, or where the contact was made.",
  "location" : "Pacific Ocean off Southern CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_98",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1950",
  "desc": "**OIL WORKERS WATCH ONE OVER RANGELY.** A shining aluminum-colored object hovered for more than a minute over the Rangely Oil Basin, then moved rapidly eastward. It was flat, disc-like in appearance, with a dome-like structure on top. It seemed to rotate as it hovered, emitting a flash of light at regular intervals. Its altitude was approximately 2,000 feet.",
  "location" : "Rangely, Colorado",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_99",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1950",
  "desc": "**MISSISSIPPI WATCHES ONE TURN OTHER CHEEK.** James Q. Tate of 2629 Avenue North, Birmingham, Ala., saw a red ball in the bright clear sky over Armory, Miss. He described it as being deeper red in the center than at the perimeter. On second look he saw that the red ball had turned over and appeared to be flat. The red color might have been because of the sun's reflection. It was one to one and a half miles above the town, approximately thirty feet in diameter, and moving at a terrific speed before it disappeared towards the northwest. Tate was about three miles away driving into town.",
  "location" : "Amory, Mississippi",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_100",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/1951",
  "desc": "**TWO LOOK FOR URANIUM IN AFRICA.** Two disks were sighted hanging over the Uranium mining pits and were pursued by planes. The object flew in a peculiar zig-zag course. A Spitfire came close enough to see a whirling rim on one of the saucers, but was easily and quickly outdistanced.",
  "location" : "Belgian Congo, Africa",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_101",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/1951",
  "desc": "**OLSON GUESSES THEIR SPEED AT 10,000 MPH.** Robert Olson, 3708 35th St., NW, Washington, D.C., took a picture of seven or eight saucers flying over Washington in early January. A shot was taken from someone's back porch, and a double exposure resulted when the silvery saucers were sighted. Olson says: \"I assure you, noting on that porch, not even the lighting cord that you can see hanging down is responsible for the images of the bright circles. Calculate how fast the object would have to be going to make such long streak in 1/50 of a second, assuming the saucers are 36 feet in diameter. I'd say between 2,000 and 10,000 mph.\"",
  "location" : "Washington, DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_102",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1951",
  "desc": "**AIR FORCE IMITATION DOESN'T FOOL THESE GIRLS.** Betty McCarty and Judy Royles of Kansas City sighted a huge red light with a green flickering light in the center. It appeared and disappeared several times. Betty and Judy, and Betty's husband, drove up onto the Cliff drive, and saw it hanging in the air over North Kansas City. It soared slowly around, down over Fairfax Airport, and searchlights were turned on it. It disappeared again but came back ten minutes later, appearing to be a green ball of light with a red trail. It was now very high in the sky and the only shape recognizable was that of a green sphere. The next day, the Air Force rigged up a plane with green lights and flew it around the city. The Air Force plane had a recognizable shape and a loud droning motor besides.",
  "location" : "Kansas City, Mo",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_103",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/20/1951",
  "desc": "**TWO PILOTS DENY THIS ONE AS KNOWN AIRCRAFT.** Capt. Larry M. Vinther and co-pilot James R. Bachmeier, flying a Mid-Continent Airline plane, saw a straight-sided object, with no exhaust glow, jet pods, or engines. It performed maneuvers and turns at speeds impossible to known aircraft, according to Vinther.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_104",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1951",
  "desc": "**TWO CAPTAINS CAN'T GO ALONG WITH LIDDEL'S BALLOON THEORY.** Capr. J.E. Cocker and Capt. E. W. Spradley of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, while tracking a large weather balloon, saw an object hovering at 50 to 60 thousand feet. Flat milky color made it resemble a dime. It gave three brilliant flashes and then disappeared from sight.",
  "location" : "Dayton, Ohio",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_105",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1951",
  "desc": "**THIS ONE POSES 17 MINUTES FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.** Two pilots and nine passengers of a regular plane flight from Nairobi to Mombasi, Africa, saw a huge cigar-shaped vessel, at first quite stationary over the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, then as the plane drew near, rising rapidly at an estimated 100 mph and disappearing at 44,000 feet. The vessel was judged to be 200 feet long, brilliantly polished except for four duller bars which ran vertically down its body. It had a huge fin or paddle-rudder at the stern, no exhaust. It remained in view for 17 minutes, long enough for three passengers to obtain photographs of the object.",
  "location" : "Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_106",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1951",
  "desc": "**MYSTERIOUS MISSILE ATTACKS NAVY SHIP.** The Navy reported today that one of its ships was attacked recently off the western shore of Korea by a powerful \"mysterious\" missile that kicked up a 100-foot column of water. According to the report appearing in the _Naval Aviation News_, the _USS Gardiner's Bay_ was steaming through the channel off Inchon when two \"mysterious missiles, trailing long, white smoke plumes\", plunged from the sky and landed off the ship's port bow. \"No aircraft could be sighted by radar or visually overhead,\" the article added, \"although the ceiling was unlimited.\" Identification of the missile remains a great mystery.",
  "location" : "San Diego Union",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_107",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1951",
  "desc": "_Newsweek Magazine_. **\"SAUCERS? NO! SKYHOOKS!\" SAYS BALLOONATIC FRINGE.** Ever since the summer of 1947, when an Idaho businessman spotted the first flying saucer, excited people all over the country reported seeing the flat shiny disks flashing across the sky. Three pilots died pursuing the strange objects. So fantastic did the rumors and the resulting legend become that \"little men from Mars\" were said to have landed in the Mexican Desert in a spaceship, provoking the best seller _Behind The Flying Saucers_ by Frank Scully. Air Force officials were understandably annoyed last week to find the Navy making front-page headlines with a story long since buried in their files. Dr. Urner Liddel, chief of nuclear-physics at the Office of Naval Research told _Look Magazine_ that the saucers were actually huge plastic balloons carrying delicate instruments to study cosmic rays. Scully when asked for comment consigned Dr. Liddel \"to the balloonatic fringe.\"",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_108",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/27/1951",
  "desc": "_London Weekly Overseas Mail_. **FIVE TRADESMEN TRADE EXPERIENCES.** live tradesmen in Carnoustle, Forfarshire, claim to have seen a flying saucer. It was glowing with a bright light \"Just like a huge electric-light bowl,\" said Edward Thompson. The five men were working on a roof on Queen-Street when just after 2 p.m. they sighted the saucer moving through a cloudy patch. All watched the object for about 30 minutes. Occasionally a bright spark fell from it, as it moved through the sky. It was estimated as being \"enormous\".",
  "location" : "Carnoustle, Forfarshire",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_109",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1951",
  "desc": "_Chicago Daily News_. **SAUCERS MORE THAN JUST BALLOONS, SCIENTIST SAYS.** Dr. Anthony O. Mirachi, a former Air Force Scientist, brushed aside the idea that flying saucers are just balloons and urged a full-scale investigation. He said that as an assistant chief of a branch of the geophysical research organization, he conducted an investigation and recommended a considerable appropriation to press for the study of the strange phenomena. When asked to comment an Air Force spokesman said \"In over 500 investigations, we have yet to find one concrete bit of evidence to back up these flying saucers.\"",
  "location" : "Chicago, IL",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_110",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1951",
  "desc": "_Syracuse Post-Standard_ **COPS, BOTH ON AND OFF DUTY, SEE THIS ONE.** A flying saucer was seen west-northwest of Maquoketa, Iowa, dropping toward the horizon. Chief operator at the state police radio station, off duty, and the man on duty, Jim Wheeler, both saw it plainly. It hovered and seemed to be orange or dull red. Then a second one, very bright white, came from the north, slightly lower, and on nearing the first, came up to its altitude. Both disappeared soon afterward.",
  "location" : "Maquoketa, Iowa",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_111",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1951",
  "desc": "**STRANGE OBJECT SEEN IN MINNESOTA SKY.** UP -- A strange object that looked like a crystal ball darted about the sky over Rainy Lake \"just like a hummingbird,\" residents of the area reported today. Witnesses said the object streaked across the eastern end of the lake with a tremendous burst of speed, stopped suddenly, and hung apparently motionless in the sky for several minutes.",
  "location" : "International Falls, Minnesota",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_112",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1951",
  "desc": "**INDIA PILOT SEES CIGAR-SHAPED SAUCER.** AP -- O.B. Varma, a pilot in the Delhi Flying Club, told of seeing a cigar-shaped saucer 100 feet long skimming overhead \"at the terrible speed of nearly 2,000 mph.\" \"It was nearly 5,000 feet up,\" Varma said, \"and made no sound.\" Varma mentioned 20 fellow Indian pilots also noticed the sudden appearance of a white streak approaching from the north headed by a cigar-shaped projectile. The object went in a straight line, he said, then began making loops and disappeared in a southwesterly direction.",
  "location" : "New Delhi, India",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_113",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1951",
  "desc": "**IOWA HAS A FIELD DAY.** Rev. Milton Nothdurft, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Maquoketa, Iowa, reported that two saucers were seen this day from 10:20 to 10:45 p.m. The next night, an operator of the state police radio reported another saucer in approximately the same area. Station WMT at Cedar Rapids reported that two saucers took off in a blinding flash on May 22 in broad daylight near Coggin.",
  "location" : "Maquoketa, Iowa",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_114",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1951",
  "desc": "**SWEETER, NEW TO SAUCERS, DUMMIES UP.** Officer Sweeter, on duty at the state police radio station, saw a moving light, west-northwest, but being a newcomer among saucer enthusiasts, hesitated to say anything more.",
  "location" : "Maquoketa, Iowa",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_115",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1951",
  "desc": "**STUDENTS SPOT ONE TAKE OFF.** High school students reported seeing a saucer \"take off\" in a blinding flash of speed near Coggan, Iowa, north of Cedar Rapids, and west-northwest of Maquoketa.",
  "location" : "Maquoketa, Iowa",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_116",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1951",
  "desc": "_Kansas City Times_, Missouri. **PILOT SEES 'STAR' GO THROUGH GYRATIONS.** AP - An American Airlines pilot said today he saw what appeared to be a bluish-white star moving back and forth at high speed in the Southwest today. Captain W.R. Hunt said he saw the object about 100 miles south of Dodge City. The object traveled at speeds from 500 to 1000 m.p.h. and after playing tag with the airplane, descended to four or three thousand feet.",
  "location" : "South of Dodge City, US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_117",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1951",
  "desc": "**RADIO COMMENTATOR CHECKS SIGHTINGS IN IOWA.** A letter brought Bill Roberta of WMT, Cedar Rapids, new bureau, on a 60-mile drive on the 23rd to investigate sightings at Maquoketa. He had kept a record of the stories since 1947. He mentioned that the mysterious phenomena had been seen by quite a few people on a lake near International Falls, Minnesota, and that a pilot in Kansas City had also reported a strange moving light.",
  "location" : "Maquoketa, Iowa",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_118",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1951",
  "desc": "**GALESBURG COPS LOSE TRAIL.** City police south of Galesburg heard on short wave from Monmouth Ill., police talking about a strange moving light traveling toward the northwest. They were trying to get the others to see if it was observed from there, but evidently it was not.",
  "location" : "Galesburg, Illinois",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_119",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1951",
  "desc": "**HIS HOBBY IS THOSE FLYING OOOOOOOOS.** George Fawcett, a Mount Airy, NC senior at Lunchburg College has been a collector of information on flying saucers since 1947. He was crossing the campus on the morning of June 5, when he saw an orange-colored disk high in the sky. He reports the disk zig-zagged, then settled down to a straight course and moved off to the west. Also see: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article275097716.html",
  "location" : "Lynchburg, Virginia",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_120",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1951",
  "desc": "_Lexington Herald_. **MAGNETIC SCIENTIST EXPOSES \"BALLOONATIC FRINGE\".** US Navy Electronics Engineer Milan Rafayko - 1916-2000, formerly Milan Rafajko - took issue with the Lexington Herald for playing up Dr. Urner Liddel's explanation that flying saucers were balloons. \"If all saucers were balloons at high altitudes,\" he wrote, \"then what were those saucers sighted at low altitudes?\" He wanted to know how a balloon could outmaneuver an F-51 fighter plane. The editor denied his paper was being \"used\" by the government to further any special theory. Rafayko charged it was an obviously fabricated story. Also see: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lexington-herald-milan-rafayko/131986026/",
  "location" : "Kentucky",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_121",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/1951",
  "desc": "**AUSSIE CLOCKS ONE IN 7 SECONDS ACROSS SKY.** Roger Shinkfield of 49 Magill ROad, St. Peters, Adelaide, sighting a white circular object directly over heasd and traveling south. It took seven seconds to reach the horizon. He estimated the height to be between 20,000 and 30,000 feet. No sound could be heard.",
  "location" : "Adelaide, Australia",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_122",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/19/1951",
  "desc": "_The Oregonian_. A glowing object moving across the heavens and late-strolling Portlanders abuzz with curiosity. Several persons who saw the thing about 11 pm described it as a long streak of light traveling slowly from east to west. Some said it resembled a meteor except that it was traveling too slowly. One man said it was followed by a trail of white smoke.",
  "location" : "Portland, OR",
  "time" : "23:00",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_123",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1951",
  "desc": "**OHIO REPORTS FIREBALL WITH FLOCK-LIGHTING.** A fireball was seen over Dayton, hovering in midair. It seemed to have two powerful beams of lights streaming down from the underside.",
  "location" : "Dayton, Ohio",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_124",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1947",
  "desc": "**BUFFALO MAN REPORTS ONE FOUR YEARS LATER.** Jolin S. Sarick of Buffalo, on July 22, 1951, describes a sighting of his in 1947: \"I saw twin lights coming down and when I saw them they were already quite close to the ground. They were steady and the color was blue or green. The lights seemed about a mile away and in the direction of our airport which is 7 miles away. We have never before or since seen any lights from airplanes coming down or going up from the airport.\"",
  "location" : "Buffalo, New York",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_125",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1951",
  "desc": "_The Kansas City Star_. **TOP SECRET: MAGNETIC STORM CAUSES MASS JET CRASH.** Air Force officials were tight-lipped today as they investigated the cause of the crash of eight F-84 jet fighters, the largest mass crash in jet aviation history. Three pilots of the eight ill-fated jets were killed, and two were injured as the planes tumbled out of the sky near Richmond yesterday. No one could explain what occurred to cause eight planes to crash from a formation of 34 at the same time. The Air Force quickly dropped a curtain of secrecy over its investigation, and all personnel were ordered \"to give out absolutely no information regarding the plane crashes.\"",
  "location" : "Richmond, VA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_126",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1951",
  "desc": "**ROWBOATS IN THE SKY.** By Matt Weinstock in _LA Times_. A man we know, a skeptic by the way, observed a strange object while sitting on the patio of his home near La Brea and Adams, Los Angeles, Saturday night (June 29, 1951) at 7:20 p.m. Its estimated height was 5,000 feet. Several friends were present, one of whom observed it through binoculars. It looked like the bottom of a rowboat, except it was a perfect ellipse with a ring of red lights around the edges. In about five minutes, the object shot up at a tremendous speed and disappeared.",
  "location" : "Los Angeles, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_127",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1951",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Examiner_. **BALL OF FIRE FLIES ACROSS LA SKIES.** Police last night received dozens of telephone calls from persons reporting a \"ball of red fire\" moving across the southwestern skies. The object was said to be traveling low on the horizon in an erratic fashion and was visible for about 10 minutes. Griffith Park Observatory said it had no explanation other than that the object may have been an airplane or the planet Venus.",
  "location" : "Los Angeles, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_128",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1951",
  "desc": "**PROFESSORS AGREE THEY SAW LUBBOCK LIGHTS.** Dr. W. L. Ducker, head of the Texas Technical College Petroleum Engineering Department and Dr. A. G. Bert, professor of chemical engineering, and Dr. W. I. Robinson, professor of geology, all saw two strange formations hurtling through the sky over Lubbock, Texas from horizon to horizon in three seconds. No shock waves were felt, indicating the craft to be in the stratosphere, 50,000 feet or higher. Speed was 1,800 mph. if at one mile high, 18,000 if 50,000 feet high. Shape could not be determined, but each object gave off a glow of light.",
  "location" : "Lubbock, Texas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_129",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1951",
  "desc": "**AIR FORCE PILOTS CLOCKS THEM AS TOO FAST FOR F-86'S.** Two Air Force jet pilots reported today that they chased a mysterious round flying object at 900mph, for thirty minnutes. Lt. Wilbert S. Rogers of Columbia, PA, pilot of the plane said: \"We couldn't have caught it in an F-86.\" (The US's fastest jet fighter.)",
  "location" : "Mitchell Field, New York",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_130",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1951",
  "desc": "**LUBBOCK LIGHTS ON FILM CONFIRMED.** Carl Hart Jr. of Lubbock, Texas, took several photographs today of 18 saucers flying in formation. An Air Force Intelligence team, now admitted to be continuing flying saucer investigations, said, \"These photos are legitimate.\" In one, a larger mother-ship could be seen off to one side, apparently controlling the mass flight of the saucers which were in an inverted V formation. Hart released the photographs to Acme and the Air Force.",
  "location" : "Lubbock, Texas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_131",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1951",
  "desc": "_Kansas City Star_. **TWO SAUCER SQUADRONS SHOW MISSOURI.** Mrs. Betty McCarty reported seeing two groups of circular objects one slightly above the other, about 12 miles east of Kansas City. She estimated the lower group of contained at least 150 and the upper group about 50. She said that they changed color and position with no visible effort and she heard no motor noise.",
  "location" : "12 miles east of Kansas City, MO",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_132",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1951",
  "desc": "_The Matador Tribune_. **MATADOR GENERATIONS BACK UP LUBBOCK.** Three generations of the Tilson family, Mrs. Tilson, her daughter, and her granddaughter, all of Matador, saw at close range something strange in the sky which might have been a flying saucer. They were not mistaken, nor were they excited. The sighting over Lubbock occurred the same day.",
  "location" : "Matador, Texas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_133",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1951",
  "desc": "**TWO MORE REFUSE TO JOIN MIDDEL'S BALLOONATIC FRINGE.** AP -- J. Gorden Vaeth, US Navy Aeronautical engineer and Charles B. Moore, Jr., an aerologist engineer, saw a white object which was not their balloon. Moore turned the telescope on it and saw an ellipsoid about two and a half times as long as it was wide. It was gleaming white, but didn't have any metallic shine. It was travelling too fast to get a clear focus in the telescope.",
  "location" : "White Sands, New Mexico",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_134",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1951",
  "desc": "_New York Journal-American_. **FOUR REPORT FANTASIC FLYING BALL.** Four northern New York residents claimed today to have seen a fantastic flying ball, powered by a motor driven propeller, land near St. Regis and Hogansburg, and then take off and vanish over Massena. Alex LaFrance, Peter Philips and Francis Arquette told police they saw it land in a field near the Canadian border. They said the sphere took off with a humming noise at about 25 mph. Mrs. Angus Cook said the ball landed about 200 yards from her home. Also see: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-star-report-balloon-lands-soar/132051701/",
  "location" : "St. Regis and Hogansburg, New York",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_135",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1951",
  "desc": "**BETTY McCARTY REPORTING IN AGAIN.** Mrs. Betty McCarty reported seeing a large bright object flashing red, green, and white. It was visible from 7:15 until 11:20. While under her observation, the object, unlike a star, moved from south to east.",
  "location" : "Kansas City, MO",
  "time" : "19:15",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_136",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1951",
  "desc": "**ZIPPING AGAIN IN THE SKY.** Two CAA employees say they saw an oval object fly over Terre Haute yesterday at a speed they estimated at 18,000 mph. The object appeared at an altitude of about 3,000 feet and disappeared quickly in the sunlight cloudless sky.",
  "location" : "Terre Haute, Indiana",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_137",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1951",
  "desc": "**SAUCER SIGHTED OVER FREEWAY.** Stanley Parker and Robert Cadaret, industrial art students, report seeing a flying saucer over the Hollywood freeway at about 4pm.",
  "location" : "Los Angeles, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_138",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1951",
  "desc": "_The Denver Post_. **HUMAN TRIANGULATION MEASURES THIS ONE.** The flying saucers, long grounded insofar as Colorado is concerned, were aloft again in the lonely skies of Northern Weld County. M. G. Foster, operator of a ranch 11 miles northeast of Grover, Colorado, reported two members of his family observed a strange object flying low in the sky near sunset on September 27. The cigar-shaped object traveled in a perpendicular position northward until it disappeared in the cloudless skies of Wyoming. The object was also seen by Foster's son, who was several miles away, and by an unrelated man in Hereford, Colorado, 12 miles away.",
  "location" : "11 miles northeast of Grover, Colorado",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_139",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1951",
  "desc": "**TWO SAY 'HELLO' TO MINNESOTA'S FALLS.** Frank Aalstead of Duluth reported two saucers over International Falls, Minnesota.",
  "location" : "Duluth, Minnesota",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_140",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1951",
  "desc": "_The Examiner_ **SAUCER IN SKY SNAPPED BY TOURISTS.** Mr. and Mrs. Robert Greenwood of Chicago, snapped pictures of what seems to be a flying saucer while vacationing in Cody, WY. They had noticed nothing unusual in the sky nor had they heard the road of any airplane motors. They found the strange object in the top top center of the picture only after they returned home and had their firm processed.",
  "location" : "Los Angeles, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_141",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/1951",
  "desc": "_Chicago Herald-American_. **UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.** Reproduction of photograph taken by the Greenwoods. \"It looks very mucuh like a fake,\" said a rival photographer.",
  "location" : "Chicago, IL",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_142",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/7/1951",
  "desc": "_Kansas City Star_. **NOT SURE ABOUT SKY LIGHT.** AP -- Authorities were undecided tonight whether the flash of light seen over Sugarloaf mountain in Western Arizona this morning was a burning plane or a meteorite. Some persons said they saw a flaming silver plane crash into the mountain. Others reported seeing a flash of light, but said they didn't believe it was a plane. A CAA spokesman said no plane had been known to be flying in the area at the same of the reported crash.",
  "location" : "Sugarloaf Mountain, Western Arizona",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_143",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/7/1951",
  "desc": "_Kansas City Star_. **A FIRE STREAK IN THE SKY - EARLY.** An AP dispatch from Oklahoma City reported a meteorite which sounded like \"someone running across the porch.\" It startled Oklahoma residents this morning before it apparently disintegrated. Reports from surrounding communities told of the ball of fire that flashed through the heavens about 7:20 am. Enid residents reported a ball of fire that flashed blue, purple, red, and silver. At Waco where four people reported seeing the flash, Dr. Walter J. Williams, astronomer at Baylow University, said the meteor was apparently one of the Leonides which fall about November 19. Today's visitor must have been an early one.",
  "location" : "Oklahoma City, OK",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_144",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1951",
  "desc": "_Kansas City Star_. **FIERY TRAIL IN THE SKY.** AP -- Scores of New Yorkers reported seeing a strange light streaking across the sky late this afternoon. Reports described it as a \"ball of fire\", a \"reddish streak of fire\", and a \"pink streak\" high in the sky. It took a few minutes to pass from horizon to horizon, moving westward. The phenomenon was observed over a 20-mile area from Middletown to Port Jervis, where police said an object with a bright head leaving a trail was seen for about 3 minutes, vanishing in the direction of Scranton, PA. Meteorological and aeronautical sources in New York had no explanation.",
  "location" : "Middletown, NY",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_145",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1951",
  "desc": "_Kansas City Star_. **BAFFLED BY SKY BLAZES.** AP -- Twin fireballs blazed across the New Mexico sky near the Mexican border yesterday. Ground observers and fliers, some blinded momentarily, viewed the phenomena from points 350 miles apart. One eyewitness report came from nearly 100 miles south of the border, in Chihuahua, Mexico. There were widely conflicting estimates of where the objects crashed to earth. A ranking authority on meteors said recent frequency of the fireballs is \"without parallel in the whole of recorded history.\"",
  "location" : "Albuquerque, NM",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_146",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1951",
  "desc": "_The Post-Standard_. **STRANGE 'BALLS OF FIRE' REPORTED OVER SYRACUSE.** Ralph Richer of Cedarvale Road reported that at exactly 8:42 something that looked like a low-flying rocket flashed from east to west across the sky. He said it had a blue head, a yellow tail and was trailed by red sparks. An unidentified Westvale woman said she was driving home and stopped at the corner of Salisbury and Orchard roads to watch an unusual cloud formation when three round white spheres suddenly appeared in the sky, two of them traveling at terrific speed while the remaining one seemed motionlessly suspended in the air.",
  "location" : "Syracuse, NY",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_147",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/16/1951",
  "desc": "_Philadelphia Inquirer_. **SAUCERS SPOTTED NEAR READING, PA.** Flying Saucers over Montgomery and Berks near Reading were reported tonight by a radio control operator, a housewife, and a motorist. All agreed three streaks of light, spinning counter-clockwise, passed rapidly through the sky toward Philadelphia.",
  "location" : "Reading, PA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_148",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1951",
  "desc": "_San Antonio Express_. **SPACE TRAVEL AS WAR SURPLUS?** At the closing session Friday of the USAF's symposium on physics and medicine of the upper atmosphere, Dr. Hans Haber, of the Randolph Aviation School of Medicine gave this report: \"Our guided missiles are going to become ocean-hopping passenger ships. They will be the express ships of the air, and bring American and Europe within one or two hours of flight.\"",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_149",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1951",
  "desc": "**SAUCER OBLIGES CARPENTER, SECOND TIME 'ROUND'.** Guy B. Marquand, Jr., a carpenter, photographed a saucer from a mountain highway southeast of Riverside. He said the object swept noiselessly by, \"moving fast like a jet plane\". He got his camera, and snapped the picture when the object flew in front of it a second time. Two friends were with him at the time.",
  "location" : "Riverside, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_150",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1951",
  "desc": "**SAUCER HEADS NORTH FROM SANTA BARBARA.** Mrs. L. E. Hewitt and her husband reported seeing a saucer on Nov. 24, along the coast road just above Santa Barbara, at about 5:15 pm. The object was shaped like a ball and seemed to be suspended in air when it suddenly moved rapidly to the North.",
  "location" : "Oakland, CA",
  "time" : "17:15",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_151",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1951",
  "desc": "**COP SPOTS ONE ABOVE; 'NO BALLOON', HE'S TOLD.** A Kansas City policeman sighted a flying saucer directly above him. He called the airport and asked if there was a weather balloon up. They said no, because the wind was too strong. He told them of his sighting. \"If this was a balloon it would be going about 70 mph due northwest and most certainly couldn't be going into such a strong wind\", was the airport's opinion.",
  "location" : "Kansas City, MO",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_152",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1951",
  "desc": "L.W. Clopton and J. Junkurth sighted a strange object, circular to elliptical of a brilliance very similar to that of the moon which was seen at the same time. The craft was either close at hand and moving slowly or distant and fast. The latter seems to be true due to color and relative brilliance. A northwest wind about 15 or 20 mph was blowing. The saucer traveled in an apparent level arc W SW of the Sun.",
  "location" : "San Francisco, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_153",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1951",
  "desc": "**GREEN FIREBALL OVER ARIZONA.** Mr. and Mrs. Hank Fine, former Air Force Intelligence Major, of Hollywood California, saw a brilliant flash with a green tail traveling horizontally across the sky. The night was clear and brilliantly starlit.",
  "location" : "Tucson, AZ",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_154",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1952",
  "desc": "W. J. Yeo, a master telecommunications superintendent, and Sgt. D. V. Crandell, an instrument technician, reported sighting a saucer over the air base. The object appeared to be at great height, probably outside the earth's atmosphere and moved at supersonic speed. It was visible for 8 min. 43 sec. and moved roughly parallel to the earth although changing directions slightly at times, zig-zagging, climbing and diving. The object was reddish-orange in color and Yeo said it definitely was not a meteor, balloon or ordinary aircraft.",
  "location" : "North Bay, Ontario",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_155",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1952",
  "desc": "**LIT-UP CIGAR SCARES COPPERS.** A cigar-shaped object with a tail resembling a string of lighted beads raced across the sky here and looked for a time as if it was going to crash in the city, police said today. Sheriff's deputies Al Bolman and Jim Mattney, who spotted the thing early yesterday, said they thought originally it was a flaming airplane. They stated it threw sparks and flame out both ends and cruised along at about 1,000 feet. It appeared under control.",
  "location" : "Watsonville, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_156",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/25/1952",
  "desc": "**FLYING SAUCER OVER NORTHERN SKANE.** Capt. Claf Rudbeck of the War Pilot School in Ljungbuhed, spotted a clearly lit and unfamilar object flying at great altitude over Northern Skane, Thursday night. He chased the object until it disappeared over the coast. A pursuit plane from the Skanske Air Fleet joined the case but couldn't spot the saucer. No observation balloons",
  "location" : "Skanska Dagbladet, Malmo Sweden",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_157",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1951",
  "desc": "_Expressen_. **DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF SWEDEN DOUBTS SAUCER SIGHTING.** The defense department in Stockholm is of the opinion that the flying saucer Captain Rudbuck chased over Skane yesterday was a meteorological balloon released from the Physical Institute at Lund, though Captain Rudbuck insists the object was lit and was observed at night, two factors not common to balloons.",
  "location" : "Stockholm",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_158",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1952",
  "desc": "_Army Intelligence Report from Korea_. **THEY LOOK OVER KOREA, TOO.** Objects, globe or disk-shaped, bright orange in color and emitting occasional flashes of blueish light, were seen by crew members of two B-29's at widely separated points around midnight, Jan. 29. One sighting was over Wonsan, the other over Sunchon. Two crew members in each plane made the sighting and confirmed each other's observations. The Sunchon disks flew parallel to the B-29 for one minute -- The Wonson objects flew alongside for five minutes. Both crews believes the objects to be globular.",
  "location" : "Wonsan and Sunchon, Korea",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_159",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1952",
  "desc": "**PALMER JOINS THE SIGHT-SEERS.** Ray Palmer, editor of _Fate Magazine_ and co-author of _The Coming of the Saucers_ sighted an object at 10 seconds past 6:00 pm CST, from his back window. He saw an orange globe emitting blue flames traveling approximately 180 mph, 15 feet off the ground and about the size of a basketball.",
  "location" : "Amherst, Wisconsin",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_160",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1952",
  "desc": "**SAUCER SIGHTED OVER NATION'S MONEY BELT.** PFC Richard F. McCloskey and Cpl. Conrad E. Horcher report seeing a strange red object moving across the sky on Feb. 11. They say it zig-zagged across the sky, but continued on a definite course.",
  "location" : "Fort Knox, Kentucky",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_161",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1952",
  "desc": "**OPTICAL ILLUSION, OR DO THEY CHANGE SHAPE.** A resident, who wanted her identity kept secret, saw a white streak in the southwest sky. It was about 6 or 7 feet long and about a foot wide at the end closest to earth. It did not move, then widened to about two feet wide and 12 or 14 feet long. It looked like a mass of tiny stars and stayed in the same position. Then it closed up to its original size and was gone in about three or four minutes. This report can be found at the weather office of Lulu Island.",
  "location" : "Aldergrove, BC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_162",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1952",
  "desc": "_Quick Magazine_. **'QUICK' OKAYS ARMY REPORTS.** _Quick_ reviews the Korea sightings over Wonsan and Sunchon as stated in the Army Intelligence report.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_163",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1952",
  "desc": "_The Vancouver Sun_. **SHINES LIKE STAR.** Four persons observed a star-like, silvery object shortly before midnight. It moved toward the observers from the south about 45 degrees over the horizon, then turned eastward. It looked like a huge silvery star except that it shimmered. Observers were not able to tell its size, height, or speed, as they had nothing to compare it with. It flashed out of sight, and about a minute higher. Then it made a sharp right angle turn and headed south. Before the object disappeared it seemed to make 3 sharp jumps up and down. It made no sound and was in sight for a total of about four minutes.",
  "location" : "Hammond, BC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_164",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1952",
  "desc": "_Boston Traveler_. **EARLY BIRD CATCHES ONE ON GO.** Charles T. Earley heard wind in his back yard and saw an object shining like chrome stop about 1,500 feet overhead and hover. It was a big, whirling ring, about 30 feet across. It shot sky-ward and vanished at unbelievable speed.",
  "location" : "Boston, MA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_165",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Times_. **AIR FORCE MEN SIGHT HUGE FLYING SAUCER.** Two Air Force pilots said today that they watched for an hour a huge, oval-shaped object, five or six times the size of a B-29 bomber, which hovered about 55,000 feet above them. The object had no wings. Chick Logan, veteran flight commander from Marana Air Base, tried to investigate, but could go no higher than 14,000 feet because of lack of oxygen. The object was bright and shone like polished aluminum. Flight instructor Paul Wilkerson said it was too large for a weather balloon.",
  "location" : "Benson, AZ",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_166",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1952",
  "desc": "_The Vancouver Sun_. **HAMMOND STAR-GAZAERS SEE COLORED ONES.** The same observers who sighted an object over Hammond on March 14 reported a similar sighting. A star-like object appeared in the southern sky (the same place where the other had occurred) about 10:30 pm. The color was green and turned orange-amber as it came closer. It seemed to be closer than its predecessor. It made sharp turns, seemed to stop, then turned bright red and became ovalish in shape. When it headed toward the horizon, it turned back to amber, then faint green and silvery white as it disappeared. No sound was heard.",
  "location" : "Hammon, BC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_167",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Times_. **ARE THESE VISITORS FROM MARILYN MONROE?** A full-page advertisement by Life magazine raised the question: \"Are these visitors from space?\" featured today's _LA Times_ and other metropolitan dailies throughout the country. Beneath a reproduction of Carl Hart's \"Lubbock Lights\", was the simple, declarative statement in bold-faced type: \"There **is** a case for interplanetary saucers.\" The ad copy went on to declare that the existence of flying saucers was no longer being pooh-poohed by the Air Force, that the flying saucers and fireballs, such as those pictured in the advertised feature, were no psychological phenomena, not products of U.S. research, not Russian developments, and not mirages. A reproduction of Marilyn Monroe as seen on the cover of _Life's_ April 7, 1952 issue, was inserted in the lower right-hand corner of the ad.",
  "location" : "Los Angeles, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_168",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1952",
  "desc": "**THEORY ON FLYING SAUCERS EXPLAINED.** Spokesmen for the University of Social Research sought to convince newsmen that they have solved the flying saucer mystery. Substance of the discovery credited to Inventor Townsend Brown is that saucers operate in a field of electro-gravity that acts like a wave, with the negative pole at the top and the positive pole at the bottom. The saucer travels like a surfboard on the incline of a wave that is kept moving by the saucer's electro-gravitational generator. All three men are convinced that flying saucers are real, controlled by an intelligence rather than a pilot and capable of speeds up to 186,000 mps. They say that space travel will be possible in 10 years. When asked if he had a degree, Bradford Shank replied: \"No, I'm free of those encumbrances. That's why I find it so easy to talk in these new terms.\"",
  "location" : "Los Angeles, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_169",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1952",
  "desc": "_The Canyon Crier_. **HILL SCIENTIST AND AND CRIER INVESTIGATE SECRET BEHIND WHIRLING DISKS.** Dr. Mason Rose said, \"We've held our project a secret for some years now, but since _Life_ and _Colliers_ have now given credence openly in articles to the theory that saucers are from outer space, we feel it is time for the public to know. Electricity and magnetism have been coupled, which then creates a magnetic field to propel an object with no machinery.",
  "location" : "Los Angeles, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_170",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1952",
  "desc": "_Racine Journal-Times_. **SAUCERS STILL STIRRING.** Strange aerial objects of undetermined origin have been sighted whizzing through the skies once again. Pilots and engineers at the General Mills balloon experimentation project said the objects-neither balloons, airplanes, or stars--were sighted in a spectacular series of aerobatics. J. J. Kaliszewski, supervisor of balloon manufacture for the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, said he first saw the objects on October 10, 1951, while in an experimental balloon aloft. This object, showing a \"peculiar glow,\" came toward them in a shallow dive, then leveled off and slowed down. It hovered momentarily, made a sharp left turn, climbed with tremendous acceleration, and disappeared. Also see https://www.nytimes.com/1952/04/12/archives/balloon-project-men-see-strange-aerial-objects.html",
  "location" : "Minnesota and Wisconsin",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_171",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1952",
  "desc": "_The Vancouver Sun_. **HAMMOND REVISTED.** A green fireball was seen over Hammond BC, the same area which reported previous sightings this month. It moved in from the south but clouds interfered and further observation was not possible. The observer thought that the light operates on a steady schedule.",
  "location" : "Hammond BC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_172",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1952",
  "desc": "_North Bay Daily Nugget_. **SAUCERS IGHT-SEE OVER CANADIAN TOWN.** Villi Lefebvre reported seeing six saucer-shaped objects diving up and down over Temiskaming, Ontario. He said they made no noise and were not conventional aircraft, although they left vapor trails in their wake.",
  "location" : "Temiskaming, Ontario, Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_173",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1952",
  "desc": "_Ottawa Journal_. **ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD BUT COULD BE SAUCER.** E. H. Russell, a veteran airman with 13 years in the service and Flight Sgt. Reg McRae said they spotted a bright amber disk in the sky over the airfield at North Bay, Ontario around 8:30 pm. The object came from the southwest, moved across the field, stopped, an then took off in the reverse direction. It climbed at an angle of 30 degrees at terrific speed and disappeared.",
  "location" : "North Bay, Ontario, Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_174",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1952",
  "desc": "_Ottawa Evening Journal_. **FLYING SAUCERS COULD BE REAL, ADMIT TOP CANADIAN SCIENTISTS.** No longer scoffing, RCAF Intelligence and top Canadian scientists today went on record as believing that \"flying saucers\" could not be laughed off as optical illusions. Theirs was the complete change of attitude from that of three years ago when flying saucer, mysterious disks and fireballs speeding through North American skies were regarded as something close to a joke. The RCAF said its intelligence was investigating as a bona fide phenomenon, the case of the flying saucers. Dr. O.M. Solandt, Chairman of the Defence Research Board said: \"We are as mystified as anyone else.. are are keeping an open mind.\"",
  "location" : "Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_175",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1952",
  "desc": "**SAUCER 'OUT OF THIS WORLD'.** 45 persons said they saw what appeared to be an unusual form of blimp hanging motionless above Milton for about 15 minutes. A woman reported the thing with 4 other persons, who were with her during the time of the observation, and said that the main body looked black, but there was a halo-like fringe of color around it. The object looked like something out of this world, she said.",
  "location" : "Hamilton, Ontario",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_176",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1952",
  "desc": "_Toronto Daily Star_. **SAUCER MISHAP?** Lifesavers and police searched Lake Ontario for an object reported to have plunged in flames more than a mile off Scarborough Bluffs. Nothing could be found and there were no aircraft missing. Several residents reported seeing an object trailing black smoke shoot downward from the sky and then a puff of slow rising smoke that lingered in the sky for a considerable time afterward. A woman saw a ball of fire with a black tail of smoke.",
  "location" : "Lake Ontario, Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_177",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1952",
  "desc": "North Bay _North Bay Daily Nugget_. **DISK SPEEDS OVER NORTH BAY.** A resident of North Bay, Miss Bernice Byers reported a noiseless, round object traveling \"quite fast and high\" over the district at 11 a.m. The object passed from west to east leaving a vapor trail.",
  "location" : "North Bay, Ontario, Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_178",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1952",
  "desc": "_North Bay Daily Nugget_. **FIREBALL OVER NORTH BAY.** A glowing fireball was observed by at least 15 people in two sections of the town. A group of young people and crews in the ONR YARDS made the sighting and the two reports were identical. It was a multicolored object, swooping and climbing at high speed. Both groups spotted the object at about 10:00 p.m. It is interesting to note that the Canadian Atomic Research Center at Chalk River is only about 130 miles northeast of North Bay, where the highest activity of strange objects is reported.",
  "location" : "North Bay, Ontario, Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_179",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1952",
  "desc": "_Ottawa Evening Journal_. **FLYING SAUCER THEORY STUMPS DEFENSE RESEARCH BOARD.** The Defense Research Board this afternoon opened its file on investigations made into the mystery of the Flying Saucers. The Board disclosed it had 30 different reports of strange objects scudding through the upper atmosphere. In the great majority of cases, the Board frankly admitted, it was baffled. It cautioned that the reports could not simply be dismissed as imaginative nonsense. Among the 30 cases the Board was able to specifically find the cause or source of a \"few\" of the phenomena. But the rest, the Board openly confessed, cannot be explained.",
  "location" : "Ottawa, Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_180",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1952",
  "desc": "**MANY SEE ONE OVER MONTREAL.** A Montreal trainman saw a flying saucer over the city shortly after 7 a.m. The object was very shiny, like a mirror with the sun on it and the reflection was constant. He could see the object for a good 15 to 30 seconds.",
  "location" : "Montreal",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_181",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1952",
  "desc": "_The Vancouver Sun_. **BLUE SAUCER EXPLORES ALOUETTE RIVER.** Hammond BC. -- A bluish object, spherical in shape, was observed by Mrs. Walter Ritchie near Alouette River. It was shimmering and stood still. Time of observation: 11:30 a.m. Sky, clear and cloudless.",
  "location" : "Hammond Bay BC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_182",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1952",
  "desc": "_Toronto Telegram_. **50 VISIT TORONTO.** A Wychwood resident reported seeing a collection of about 50 lights in V formation moving rapidly from southeast to northwest around 10:30 p.m. He said the lights were dim orange in color and appeared to be at a great height. He could hear no sound, but was able to observe an arc of approximately 30 degrees in the sky and the collection of lights appearing and disappearing over the distance in approximately 6 seconds. The observer conceded he was shaken by the experience. Several radio stations broadcasted this report and said that the objects were picked up on Canadian and American radar, but this never appeared in the newspapers.",
  "location" : "Toronto, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_183",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1952",
  "desc": "**SAUCERIANS JOIN BALL GAME?** \"It was on a farm 3 miles east of Long Prairie, Minn., about 2:30 in the afternoon, April 21, 1952. I was playing 'catch' with my cousin when a dirty grayish saucer began hovering above us,\" reported Ronny Gmyrek of Browerville, Minn. \"We ran to get my cousin's binoculars, and both could see it had a definite hump in the middle with another smaller one behind this. It made no sound, except when it left, and then only a hum. I have seen many balloons but in the 3 minutes we watched this one, I know it couldn't have been a balloon.\"",
  "location" : "Browerville, Minn",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_184",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1952",
  "desc": "**MYSTERY CRAFT REPORTED FLYING AT 1,000 MPH.** Widely separated reports of an unidentified craft high in the skies, leaving a vapor trail and traveling at a speed of more than 1,000 mph, were received last night from western Ontario points. Canadian Air Force reserve fighters here were ordered to intercept the mysterious craft. The pilots reported they could not come anywhere near the source of the vapor trail, although they pushed their planes to more than 450 miles an hour. Air Force Officials said no high-speed, high-flying jet aircraft were aloft at the time.",
  "location" : "London, Ontario, Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_185",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1952",
  "desc": "_Toronto Daily Star_. **SAUCER OUTDISTANCES MUSTANG.** A \"mystery plane\" was reported over Toronto, London, and other places in southern Ontario. The object could not be seen, but it left a vapor trail in the sky. Over London, it was chased by a Mustang fighter plane (450 mph), and the pilot of this plane said it seemed as though he were standing still in comparison with the speed of the object. He was positive that it was not an ordinary aircraft. In London the speed of the mystery \"plane\" was estimated at 2,000 mph or more. The RCAF explained it as the new British Canberra jet bomber (speed about 600 or 700 mph).",
  "location" : "London, ON",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_186",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1952",
  "desc": "**MULTICOLORED DISK OVER MOSLON.** Several persons reported a whirling object that gave off light. The sparkling disk kept changing color as it streaked across the sky.",
  "location" : "Moplson, Man",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_187",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1952",
  "desc": "_Winnipeg Free Press_. **MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS OVER CITY.** Residents reported strange lights and objects over the city, between 10 and 11 p.m. The lights changed color from orange and red to green and black. Brilliant white lights were also reported. The lights or objects make sharp turns and were judged to be moving slower and higher than ordinary aircraft. They came from the north, stopped, and then went back the same way. Traffic control at Stevenson Field reported normal activity.",
  "location" : "Winnipeg, Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_188",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1952",
  "desc": "_The Vancouver Sun_. **SCHOOLBOY SIGHTS SAUCERS.** A 12-year-old Vancouver schoolboy, Jonathan Parker reported 8 objects flying in two V-formations at 7:30 p.m. Five orange-colored objects with bluish glow at their rear, formed the first \"V.\" Three formed a smaller V inside the first. They came at terrific speed from the south and at their northern end of the sweep they shot sharply upward and disappeared.",
  "location" : "Vancouver",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_189",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1952",
  "desc": "_Toronoto Daily Star_. **SASKATCHEWAN SEES DINNER PLATES.** Mrs. N. Gataint of Regina, Saskatchewan, said she awakened during the night and saw a strange object moving in the sky in a southwesterly direction. The object, she reported, stood still for a few seconds, then shot out spurts of fire and moved on. It had a dark tail like a kite and was shaped like a dinner plate.",
  "location" : "Toronto",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_190",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1952",
  "desc": "**'FLYING BASEBALL' OVER LAKE WILCOX.** Three persons reported a saucer five miles west of Lake Wilcox which was bright and hazy, about the size of a baseball. Visible for six seconds it flashed across the observers' view from south to north. The object hovered for a while and suddenly shot upward with tremendous velocity. When it turned on its side, it appeared to be flat.",
  "location" : "North Bay, Ontario",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_191",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1952",
  "desc": "**GLOWING OBJECTS IN SKY REPORTED IN TEXAS.** Strings of glowing pink objects, all of them moving northward, were reported in the skies over Austin Wednesday night. Sightings were reported from widely scattered parts of town shortly after 8 p.m. However, both the U.S. Weather Bureau and the Airport Control Tower, where a 24-hour watch of the skies is maintained, reported no unusual phenomena. Reports of the strange glowing objects were also received in Fort Worth.",
  "location" : "Austin, Texas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_192",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1952",
  "desc": "**OTTAWA SPOTS GREEN ONE.** A silvery green disk was reported by several persons at 9:22 p.m. It was described as huge and traveling at a tremendous speed. The object was in view for less than one minute, and the reports from different places checked. One observer said, \"There appeared to be an eerie strange fluorescence of bluish-white tinge or delicate green-like halo surrounding it and there was no sound.\"",
  "location" : "Ottawa, Ontario",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_193",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1952",
  "desc": "_Ottawa Journal_. **MOUNT ROYAL OBSERVERS SPOT THREE.** Three persons saw a long cigar-shaped form, coming down at a terrific rate of speed. The object was silvery in color; it paused for a moment and then suddenly whirled over on its side, returning in the same direction where it came from. The observers said that it was not a jet plane or any other man-constructed machine. They were on the top of Mount Royal (in the middle of the city) during the observation.",
  "location" : "Montreal",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_194",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1952",
  "desc": "_Boston Traveler_. **SECRETARY OF NAVY GETS SAUCER ESCORT.** Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, en route from Pearl Harbor to Guam, said the pilot of his ship and his co-pilot came back to the cabin and reported a flying saucer had appeared and had flown abeam the Secretary's plane for some distance, then vanished. A following plane was notified and reported that a saucer had flown along his wing also, and then disappeared.",
  "location" : "En route from Pearl Harbor to Guam",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_195",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1952",
  "desc": "**SAUCER REPORTED SEEN UP THERE DOWN UNDER.** A dozen people reported they saw a flying saucer over the Sydney area and at Pearkes, a town 180 miles west of here. The witnesses described the object as a cigar-shaped, well-lighted and silent in its operations. They reported it flew at an altitude of about 4,000 feet and at an estimated speed of 500 miles per hour.",
  "location" : "Sydney, Australia",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_196",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Examiner_. **PHOTOS OF SLYING SAUCERS SNAPPED AT RIO.** Photographers Ed Keffel and Joao Martins shot five pictures of a saucer as it came in over the sea, losing altitude as it approached. They said it passed several hundred feet over their heads and appeared to be rocking like a slowly falling leaf. It seemed larger than a commercial airplane and was round and wingless. Also see: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-tribune-rio-papers-sa/132109928/",
  "location" : "Rio De Janeiro",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_197",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Examiner_. **RIO'S FLYING SAUCERS 'BEST'.** The military attache at the United States Embassy in Rio de Janeiro examined today negatives of five photographs of a flying saucer sighted over Rio Wednesday and called them the best he had ever seen of the phenomenon. Col. Jack Werely Hughes and several Brazilian Air Force officers visited the office of the newspaper _O Cruzeiro_ to study the photographs shot by the paper's cameramen, Ed Keffel and Joao Martains. Following publication, the pictures will be made available to the United States Embassy for study by the American Air Force. Also see: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-tribune-rio-papers-sa/132109928/",
  "location" : "Rio De Janeiro",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_198",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Herald & Express_. **SEATTLE SKY EXPLOSION, SAUCER OR METEOR?** Responsible observers believed today that a blinding blast which rocked the city of 500,000 persons may have been an exploding meteor, but talk of flying saucers or guided missiles could be heard on any street corner. An intelligence officer at McChord Air Base near Tacoma said an official statement may be released later today. Residents were awakened at 1:30am yesterday by the blast, which \"rumbled like a freight train\". The eerie blue-white light was seen at an estimated elevation of 2,000 feet and was visible 60 miles away. The explosion occurred over North Seattle, and was witnessed by many, including Northwestern Airlines pilot Bert Carlson. He sighted the object as he prepared to land at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. \"It was at about 7,000 feet when it suddenly shattered into eight pieces which looked like chain lightening. Fireballs trailed to the earth\", he said.",
  "location" : "Seattle, WA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_199",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1952",
  "desc": "**FAR HORIZONS SEES ONE NEAR.** Mr. Albert Ditman reports a flying saucer over Far Horizons in the early morning with such a brilliant light that it lit up the mountain range for miles.",
  "location" : "Georgeville, P.Q. Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_200",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1952",
  "desc": "_The Mirror_. **L.A. GETS BATHED IN FIREBALLS.** Fireballs in the sky and flashing elliptical bathtubs thought to be meteorites, were visible over many parts of the city shortly after midnight today. Police switchboards reported numerous calls from persons who said the phenomena resembled a greenish-red streak of light.",
  "location" : "Los Angeles, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_201",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1952",
  "desc": "_New York Times_. **MENZEL FOLLOWS COMMUNIST LINE.** Two Soviet authors and two popular science magazines were taken to task for spreading pseudo-scientific theories that the famous Tunguska meteorite, which fell in Siberia in 1908, was actually an atomic-powered spaceship from Mars. In the Provinces, some teachers and lecturers, having absorbed this material uncritically, began presenting it as the latest word in science. Editorial offices of papers that reprinted the sketches were showered with letters containing questions such as the time when one could expect the next arrival of Martians.",
  "location" : "US/Canada",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_202",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1952",
  "desc": "_The National Guardian_. **\"TOP SECRET\" PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE 50 YEARS.** William A. Reuben ridiculed the contention of U.S. Attorney Myles Lane that the Rosenbergs had given Soviet Russia some of our top secrets, \"including a project for a platform 3,000 miles in space.\" Reuben pointed out that K. Tsiolkovsky sketched this in 1903 in \"The Rocket In Cosmic Space.\" So did Hermann Oberth in 1922 in \"The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space,\" and as late as 1948, Secretary of Defense Forrestal referred in his annual report to an \"earth satellite vehicle program.\" A New York Times science editor scoffed at Forrestal's project being secret, pointing out it was obviously derived from Oberth.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_203",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1952",
  "desc": "**LIGHT TREATMENT FOR LIGHT SUBJECT.** A single saucer swooped over the Capitol dome in Washington, D.C. today. One motorist who noticed this accidentally ran his car off the road and smashed into a tree. Ignoring his car, he proceeded to the nearest telephone and called the C.A.A. to report the unidentified object. They took his story in a light vein and said that it was most probably a light reflection or one of the many low-flying aircraft in that area. They thought the car and the tree might be real, though.",
  "location" : "WASHINGTON, DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_204",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Examiner_. **SAUCER OFF BEACH SEEN BY EX-PILOT.** Dick Robinson, technical writer for the Northrop Aircraft Company and former air force pilot, standing on the porch of his apartment, at 758 Avenue B, Redondo Beach, shortly before 7 a.m., spotted what he believed to be an airplane over the water. It was about 15 miles out and 5 to 8 degrees above the horizon. \"It didn't take me long to realize that it wasn't an airplane because it would be too small to be visible at that distance.\"",
  "location" : "Redondo Beach, CA",
  "time" : "07:00",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_205",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1952",
  "desc": "_The Pueblo Chieftain_. **PUEBLO SEES THE LIGHT.** A slow-moving white light, described as a \"definite object\" traveled in from the north, hung over midtown Pueblo and then moved south over the steel mills. One observer said the craft made a figure eight and moved north again. The object, which sometimes took on a reddish hue, hovered over the city fifteen to twenty minutes before slowly disappearing into the night.",
  "location" : "Pueblo, Colorado",
  "time" : "night",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_206",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1952",
  "desc": "_Sunday Graphic and Sunday News_. - London England. **IT WAS A FLYING SAUCER TO HIM.** A refugee from the Russian occupied zone said today that he saw a flying saucer take off from a forest clearing in Thuringia, East Germany. Herr Oskar Linke, reported that he came upon the flying saucer three miles from the U.S. zone and saw crew members of its crew. He said, \"My 11-year-old daughter and I glimpsed something white through the trees. We crept near and we saw a huge oval disk about 25 feet across lying on the ground. It looked like an enormous phosphorescent warming pan without a handle. We saw two figures wearing metallic overalls. My daughter screamed in fright and the two climbed hastily into the disk which had circular portholes around the edges. The upper works retracted and the saucer began to rise -- slowly at first -- into the air. We felt the swish of air it made. It hovered at 100 feet and then sped out of sight.\" Linz is an ex-mayor of a East German town, who fled from Communist persecution. In London last night, Kenneth Gatland, Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society said, \"Such a contraption must come from outside this earth. Nothing like it is known here.\"",
  "location" : "Thuringia, East Germany",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_207",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/19/1952",
  "desc": "_The Hollywood Citizen-News_. **AIR FORCE LEAVES ESCAPE HATCH OPEN.** Armed with a special camera suggested by a Los Angeles scientist, the Air Force has launched a study to determine if there really are flying saucers and if so, what are they? Using these specially built cameras, 200 of which are being distributed at atomic and military installations, a picture of a flying saucer might be obtained. The AF feels the final solution will be one of the following: 1) Misinterpretation of known objects. 2) Reflected light from the earth. 3) Man-made vehicles, most possibly Russian. 4) Spaceships or interplanetary missiles.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_208",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Examiner_. **FLYING DISK -- FOUR VETERAN PILOTS TELL OF SEEING SKY SAUCER.** Capt. John Baldwin of Coral Gables, Capt. George Robertson of Miami, D. Shenkel of Miami, and Stephen Summers of Hialeah reported sighting a \"pancaked flying saucer\" flying 20,000 feet above the Hanford Atomic Plant at Richland. They described it as being a \"perfectly round disk, white in color, and almost transparent with small vapor trails off it like the tentacles of an octopus\".",
  "location" : "Hanford Atomic Plant at Richland, WA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_209",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1952",
  "desc": "_Sunday Graphic and Sunday News_. **VICKERS AIRCRAFT DESIGNER SAYS SAUCER STORY PLAUSIBLE.** Mr. George Edwards, Chief Designer for Vickers Aircraft had this to say concerning the East Zone Saucer last night: \"Believe in saucers? I don't know. There is little wrong with the idea of a circular wing. Before and during the First World War, Britain developed a circular wing aircraft, and it flew. We called it the \"flying doughnut\". There is little to stop us developing a flying saucer -- except the money and the need. If Herr Linke's description is accurate it may be that the machine is designed as a military hover plane. It would appear from his comment on its 'glow' that it houses a jet plane designed to provide vertical take-off. The cylinder would obviously have to retract into the body to prevent resistance. Metallic suits are possible, too -- they could be a form of protective clothing for use in high altitudes. There is nothing impossible about the story, although to believe in the saucers, I would have to be shown one myself\".",
  "location" : "London, England",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_210",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1952",
  "desc": "_Hollywood Citizen-News_. **SAUCER SPOTTER BACKS DOWN - A LITTLE.** Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto, has agreed that he is the scientist at White Sands, NM who was quoted as being certain he saw a saucer. But Tombaugh was not nearly so positive about the identity of the object he saw scoot across the sky above him as was the British authority on space travel who quoted him, Arthur C. Clarke. He added cautiously that he had not seen anything like a saucer. The American scholar did admit, however, that he saw an object above Las Cruces, NM in the summer of 1948. It whizzed silently overhead from south to north, too fast for a plane and too slow for a meteor. He was careful to point out to reporters that he was not prepared to say for certain whether flying saucers were real.",
  "location" : "New Mexico",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_211",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Times_. **SAUCERS REAL, BRITON BELIEVES.** Scientist Arthur C. Clarke, one of England's leading authorities on space travel, believes flying saucers are more than mirages or myths. Clarke said he based his belief on new data on saucers supplied him by scientists at the U.S. Rocket Testing Base at White Sands, NM. He was not ready to guarantee the disks are real, but said, \"a noted American scientist told me at White Sands that he is certain he has seen one.\"",
  "location" : "Britain",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_212",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1952",
  "desc": "**TEN WATCH HUGE FLYING SAUCER.** Ten workmen watched a huge silver object which emitted a haze of smoke from its edges as it hovered high over the B.F. Goodrich rubber plant at Miami for 15 minutes Wednesday before it skimmed away to the south at \"terrific speed.\" The object, matching previous flying saucer descriptions, was spotted by R. D. McCarthy, an electrician working atop the plant. He summoned other nearby workmen who said they observed the strange craft for a quarter-hour.",
  "location" : "Miami, Oklahoma",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_213",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1952",
  "desc": "**WAS REED A SPACE MAN?** Authorities followed a cold trail Monday in the disappearance of an aircraft scientist engaged in government work and his wife expressed fears he had met with foul play at the hands of foreign agents. Albert Clark Reed, engaged in secret aeronautical research (Project \"Vortex\") at the California Institute of Technology here, disappeared from his home last Monday evening. His wife, Florence, told officers he was to meet that day with military authorities in connection with his work, \"that was so secret he wouldn't even discuss it with me.\"",
  "location" : "Pasadena, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_214",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1952",
  "desc": "**SOUTHERNERS REPORT GIANT SAUCERS.** AP -- Two Air Force pilots, W.B. Nash, and W.H. Fortenberry, reported in Miami eight objects 100 feet in diameter glowing like red hot coals and traveling 1000 mph passed directly beneath their plane. The Air Force said it has made a preliminary report to Dayton, Ohio.",
  "location" : "Washington, DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_215",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1952",
  "desc": "**PACIFIC COAST AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN AREA RESIDENTS REPORT SIGHTING.** AP -- Several Yrekans reported seeing seeing a lighted, cigar-shaped object colored purple, pink, and green and leaving a vapor trail. Residents of Medford, Oregon also reported seeing the object. In Chicago, Capt. Paul L. Carpenter, American Airlines pilot, sighted strange flying objects in an early morning flight over Colorado. The craft had a yellow tinge and were traveling about 3000 mph at an altitude of 23,000 to 30,000 feet. The Air Force Office in Dayton, Ohio assigned to the investigation said he had received about 1000 reports of Flying Saucers and 15% could not be explained.",
  "location" : "Yreka CA, Chicago IL, and Dayton OH",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_216",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1952",
  "desc": "_New York Times_. **FLYING OBJECTS NEAR WASHINGTON SPOTTED BY PILOTS AND RADAR.** Aerial objects over the vicinity of the nation's Capital were picked up and recorded by radar. No attempts were made by Air Force pilots to intercept the objects. The Air Force said it had received only a preliminary report and therefore did not know why no attempt at interception had been made.",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_217",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1952",
  "desc": "**SOMETHING TO FLYING SAUCERS, SAYS AF.** The Air Force admitted that people actually see something when they report flying saucers and said some of the unexplainable objects traveling at speeds up to 2,000 mph have been tracked by radar. This statement of Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, head of Operation Blue Book, the AF group studying reports of unidentified objects. Ruppelt said jet fighters with the very latest radar have been sent aloft to make contact, but all efforts to catch the objects failed. Of 1,000 investigated reports, Ruppelt said, 38% were meteors or other heavenly bodies, 13% were balloons, 22% birds or aircraft, 2% hoaxes, and 25% were unexplained.",
  "location" : "Dayton, Ohio",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_218",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1952",
  "desc": "**MYSTERY CLOUDS FATE OF DESERT COUPLE.** Rains of the past year have wiped out two sets of footprints which were left by a young couple who landed their small plane and walked away never to be seen again. Klaus Martens, 28, a scientist who had worked on phases of the hydrogen bomb project, and Marajune Walker, 23, took off from Pasadena, Calif., and landed a few hours later, on the desert 35 miles southeast of here on June 15, 1951. The plane was found 15 days later in perfect condition with a note left in the cockpit saying they were heading west. Their tracks veered occasionally, but went towards the Black Head mountain range then turned southward toward the Mexican border and disappeared. Officials are puzzled over their disappearance because they certainly weren't lost! They crossed two highways on the journey before disappearing completely.",
  "location" : "Yuma, Arizona",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_219",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1952",
  "desc": "_The New York Times_.  **THAT MEANS 150 WERE SAUCERS.**. Four flying objects moving at terrific speed over Denver, Colo., were sighted by Captain Paul L. Carpenter of American Airlines and his crew. The objects had a yellow tinge. They were traveling at about 3,000 miles an hour at an altitude of 23,000 to 30,000 feet. An Air Force officer at Dayton, Ohio, assigned to the investigation said he had received about 1,000 reports of flying saucers, and 15% could not be explained.",
  "location" : "Denver, CO",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_220",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1952",
  "desc": "_The Ottawa Journal_. **DISKS FOLLOW ORDERS**. At 2:00 a.m., radio engineer Elmer Chambers looked up at the sky. Here's what he says he saw: \"Six or seven bright orange disks were streaking through the sky, in single file. The saucers sped along for about five seconds and then each, in turn, veered sharply upward and disappeared.\" Chambers, 41, is chief engineer at the WRC Radio Station transmitter in the Washington suburbs.",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "time" : "02:00",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_221",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1952",
  "desc": "_New York Times_. **AIR FORCE SAYS SAUCER SIGHTINGS CLIMB.** Seven objects between Washington and Martinsburg, WV were reported by Capital Airlines, Flight 807 at 2:15 a.m. Capital Airlines, Flight 610 reported a light following it from Herndon Ga. to within four miles of National Airport. Citizens of Burlington, VT, South Portland, ME, and Staten Island, N.Y. reported flying saucers overhead. The Air Force said it was receiving flying saucer reports this summer at a rate higher than at any time since the initial flood of sightings in 1947, the current average being 100 sightings a month.",
  "location" : "Washington DC and Martinsburg, WV",
  "time" : "02:15",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_222",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1952",
  "desc": "_Hollywood-Citizen News_. **ARE SAUCERS DODGING U.S. AIR ROUTES?** A carpenter, Frank Bartko, of 9644 Aperson Ave., Tujunga told police he saw four saucers last night around 7 o'clock. He was standing in front of his house when he looked up and saw aircraft hovering at a high altitude. He watched them disappear in the direction of Lockheed Air Terminal.",
  "location" : "Tujunga, CA",
  "time" : "19:00",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_223",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1952",
  "desc": "**DISKS SPIRAL OVER BAY AREA.** Mrs. J. Jungkurth of San Francisco sighted a brilliant metallic saucer at approximately 11:30 a.m. The circular-shaped craft alternated in flight between several tight circles and straight level courses. Circles were accomplished several to the second in a tortuous west-to-east level flight.",
  "location" : "San Francisco, California",
  "time" : "11:30",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_224",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1952",
  "desc": "_The New York Times_. **MORE FROM THE BALLOONATIC FRINGE.** Air Force officers at Mitchell AFB, N.Y., said yesterday that weather balloons released there four times daily might provide the answer to local reports of flying saucers over parts of Long Island. Balloons are sent up at 5 & 11 p.m. and also 5 & 11 a.m. by the weather detachment. Each balloon also carries a small battery-powered light underneath its surface that illuminates the balloon in flight so that it may be tracked from the ground. At about 100 feet off the ground at night the balloon might easily be mistaken for a flying saucer.",
  "location" : "Mitchell AFB, NY",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_225",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Times_. **SPACE TRAVEL ALREADY HERE, SCIENTISTS SAY.** Space travel is here, assert Drs. Konrad J.K. Buettner and Heinz Haber, UCLA experts on upper air research. They point out that men in \"space suits\" and \"space craft\" already have risen to altitudes where 96% of the earth's atmosphere lies below them. Furthermore, an unmanned two-stage rocket has climbed to 255 miles where, for all practical purposes, you are in a vacuum. These physicists point out that in these regions only three terrestrial factors make such an environment different from that of interplanetary space: 1. The bulk of the earth which keeps 50% of meteors and cosmic ray particles at a distance. 2. The magnetic field of the earth that deflects certain cosmic ray particles. 3. The heat radiation reflected and emitted by this earth and its atmosphere.",
  "location" : "Los Angeles, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_226",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Times_. **NEW MYSTERY IN SOUTHLAND SKY REPORTED.** Three San Pedro policemen last night insisted they saw an object glowing with a greenish light which seemingly gave birth to three little saucerettes, all of which vanished in the evening sky, leaving vapor trails behind them.",
  "location" : "San Pedro, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_227",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Times_. **ROCKETS MAY FIND KEY TO COSMIC RAYS.** Rockets fired from balloons to altitudes of 30 miles may blast the wraps from the 30-year-old cosmic ray mystery. Balloon authorities mentioned the fact that these \"skyhook\" balloons might easily be mistaken for a flying saucer by laymen.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_228",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1952",
  "desc": "_The Montreal Star_. **FLYING SAUCERS.** Editorial: Please don't quote us, but we marvel at the conceit of some of the these alleged experts who remark that the saucers can't possibly be vehicles of inter-planetary travel because \"the engineering problem is too difficult\". Man is certainly a stuck-up, self-centered creature. Because he can't figure out inter-planetary travel, nobody else could. Because he could not breath the air, let us say, of Mars, nobody else could. Because he has made a few faltering steps in knowledge, he takes it for granted that no one anywhere in space can possibly be as smart as he.",
  "location" : "Montreal",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_229",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1952",
  "desc": "**SAUCERS REAL OR GOVERNMENT HOAXES, SCIENTISTS SAY.** Several scientists, still stumped for an explanation of flying saucers, were convinced Monday that the mysterious objects really exist. \"I definitely believe the objects sighted over Washington were not a figment of someone's imagination,\" said R.L. Farnsworth, president of the U.S. Rocket Society. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Ohio State University, said he was convinced these persons saw something, \"some type of object or phenomena.\" But Hynek said it is \"highly improbable\" that the saucers come from another planet. One scientist who asked that his name be withheld, speculated that the saucers might be experimental aircraft developed by the U.S. \"If this be the case,\" he said, \"it's time the government quit playing jokes on the people.\"",
  "location" : "Chicago, Illinois",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_230",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1952",
  "desc": "_St. Louis Post Dispatch_. **HOOSIERS SEE FLYING SAUCERS STAGE DOGFIGHT.** Three flying saucers were reported seen by hundreds of Hoosiers, including police and military personnel, over south central Indiana early today. The objects appeared to have a \"dogfight\" over Franklin and disappeared as dawn approached. Troopers from three state police posts—Indianapolis, Seymour, and Connersville—kept a running check on the saucers for more than four hours.",
  "location" : "Indianapolis, Ind",
  "time" : "dawn",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_231",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Times_. **JETS CHASE WASHINGTON SKY OBJECTS.** AP -- The Air Force said today jet fighter planes had made an effort to intercept unknown objects in the sky over Washington last night after CAA radar specialists had spotted between four and twelve objects on their radarscopes. At 8:30 P.M. the Air Route Traffic Control Center called in jet fighter planes from Newcastle, Del., approximately 90 miles away and guided them to the mystery objects. The pilots reported nothing except an occasional light, once a \"steady, white light\" which disappeared after about one minute.",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "time" : "20:30",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_232",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc": "**JET PILOTS ORDERED TO SHOOT DOWN SAUCERS.** The Air Force revealed today jet pilots have been placed on 24-hour nationwide alert against flying saucers with orders to shoot them down if they refuse to land. It was learned pilots have gone aloft on several occasions in an effort to shoot the mysterious objects to the ground, but never came close enough to use their guns. The Air Force expressed the belief that the unidentified flying objects are not a threat to the US and stated also that they are not a secret U.S. military development.",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_233",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc": "_New York Times_. **AIR FORCE EXPLAINS 2-HOUR DELAY IN CHASING OBJECTS OVER CAPITAL.** The Air Force said tonight that the current series of flying saucer reports had brought no change in its 24-hour-a-day program to challenge unidentified and potentially hostile objects in the skies over the US. The 2-hour delay in sending up jet interceptors after radar watchers reported recent saucer sightings was explained by the Air Force. The report was sent by mistake to a flight center in Middletown, PA, instead of through the Air Force base ar Newcastle, Del.",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_234",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc": "_New York Times_. **OBJECT SEEN OVER TARRYTOWN.** Streaks of light, reportedly similar to those spotted over Washington were observed in the sky above the Hudson River. The sightings were reported to the Defense Force Filter Center at White Plains by Post Supervisor Joseph Pulsoni and two ground force observers.",
  "location" : "Tarrytown, Greenburgh, NY",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_235",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc": "_San Bernadino Sun_. **'SAUCERS' REPORTED ON CAPITAL RADAR.** The Air Force has been investigating reports that several flying saucers have been spotted virtually in its own back yard by radar device. Officials could not immediately agree whether or not this was the first time that radar had picked up such objects.",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_236",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc": "**NAVY CHECKS FIERY STREAK.** Navy officials said Tuesday, \"we're investigating thoroughly\" reports of a fiery object that streaked across the sky at 8:45 p.m. Saturday. The _U.S.S. Greenwood_, a destroyer escort, was sent to sea, but officers would not elaborate. Hundreds of sailors reported seeing the object Saturday night while watching an outdoor movie. One witness described it as a 40-foot solid white light zooming across the sky from north to south, making no sound. A week ago, a Navy man said four persons reported seeing a fiery ball in the sky over Key West that stopped and started several times before it disappeared.",
  "location" : "Key West, FL",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_237",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1952",
  "desc": "**AUSSIUE PILOT SEES FLYING SAUCER IN TECHNICOLOR HUES.** Capt. J. Murray, Constellation pilot, today reported sighting a strange, bright green object flashing horizontally, east to west across the night sky south of Darwin. Saying it changed in color to red and then to gold as it disappeared, he added: \"The object I saw Saturday was not a shooting star or comet because of its horizontal flight, brilliance, and color.\"",
  "location" : "Melbourne, Australia",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_238",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc": "**ALL OUT OF STEP, BUT ME, SAYS SHAPLEY.** Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, said flying saucers are a lot of complete nonsense and dismissed the more than 1000 reports made in the last five years as traceable to 1. hallucinations, 2. fireballs or meteorites, 3. high-altitude balloons, and 4. high-flying planes. His opponents assigned Dr. Shapley to the balloonatic fringe.",
  "location" : "Cambridge, Massachusetts",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_239",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc": "_International News Service_. **FLYING SAUCER TRAP SET BY US.** The Air Force today advanced the theory that flying saucers are apparently natural phenomena, but at the same time announced it was establishing a battery of more than 200 cameras to trap the objects on film, according to Darrel Garwood, INS Washington correspondent. Maj. Gen. John A. Samford, Chief of Air Intelligence, headed a big force of top scientific brains to work on the fantastic puzzle. The Air Force is continuing its 24 hour alert for all jet pilots to chase and shoot down any such objects which ignore orders to land.",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_240",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1952",
  "desc": "**SAUCER BUZZES KANSAN.** Sid Eubanks, a photographic supply salesman, told police he was almost swept off the highway last night by a low flying saucer which swooped low at terrific speed. Eubanks said the mystery object, appearing as a \"yellow-green, then yellow-brown streak about 400 feet long, completely reversed its direction over US highway 81 and disappeared into the west\". He said the tremendous pressure nearly threw his car off the road.",
  "location" : "Enid, OK",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_241",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Examiner_. Asked for his candid opinion on whether or not flying saucers are real, Albert Einstein wrote Rev. Louis A. Gardner of Los Angeles: \"Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I am not curious to know.\"",
  "location" : "Princeton, New Jersey",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_242",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1952",
  "desc": "_San Bernadine Sun_. **AIR FORCE EXPERTS SAY FLYING 'WHATZITS' APPEAR TO BE MERE LAYERS OF COLD AIR.** Maj. Gen. John A. Samford said that the objects being caught on radar screens for as long as five hours yesterday appeared to be layers of cold air. He discounted any theory that the Washington area is being menaced by unknown aerial vehicles from abroad or from other worlds. Tuesday was the third time in 10  days that radar had picked up \"whatzits\" flying through pre-dawn black skies. CAA radar operators said as many as 12 objects were picked up at one time Tuesday. (Saucer partisans said Gen. Samford apparently doesn't know hot air from cold air. The story was supported by a three column picture of the general hamming it up for the photographers. -FS)",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_243",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1952",
  "desc": "_San Benadino Sun_. **RESTAURATEUR WELCOMES SAUCERIAN PATRONS.** An enterprising St. Petersburg Fla. restaurant proprietor, stirred by reports of saucers in the south Florida skies, painted this sign on the roof of his establishment - \"COFFEEE FREE -- WELCOME SAUCERS!\" Meanwhile the latest flying saucer report came from Albuquerque, NM where Doyle Kline, a newspaperman said he saw 10 flying saucers \"going like a bat out of hell\" Tuesday night. He said they \"made a believer\" out of him. The Air Force asked him for a report.",
  "location" : "St. Petersburg, FL and Albuquerque, NM",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_244",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1952",
  "desc": "**TEXAS GAL TELLS ONE.** Mrs. Lem Arnold, 1125 Hackberry St., Nachodoches, Texas, witnessed a flying saucer Tuesday night and described it in detail. \"It looked to be the shape and size of a dinner plate and was traveling south at a terrific speed. The center of it seemed to blink continuously,\" she said. Mrs. Arnold was in bed when she first saw the flying object and believes she watched it for perhaps a minute before it sped out of sight.",
  "location" : "Nacogdoches, Texas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_245",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1952",
  "desc": "_Chicago Daily News_. **EXPERTS DOUBT RADAR IS FOOLED.** The flying saucer saga is ablaze again. The spark that set it off is radar. Even the skeptics are taking another look. They had been able to scoff at the aberrations of the human eye, but the uncanny see-all and tell-all eye of radar is less easily fooled. Chicago experts who know radar best say it will only bounce off solid objects. Washington wasn't recording clouds, or solidified air, in the opinion of Dr. Robert Tobey, Armour Research Foundation. Dr. Harvey Ross, microwave researcher at Motorola, supported this statement: \"The speed and maneuverability of the blips cannot be accounted for by slow-moving clouds or other atmospheric conditions.\"",
  "location" : "Chicago, IL",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_246",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Herald Express_. **FIERY OBJECT SEEN IN SKY.** Several persons reported seeing a round luminous object streaking eastward at a terrific rate of speed. All agreed that the objects resembled pictures they had seen of comets, but without tails. They said it was brilliant white and green colored.",
  "location" : "Los Angeles, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_247",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1952",
  "desc": "_New York Times_. **FLYING SAUCER QUERIES HAMPER AIR FORCE WORK.** An Air Force spokesman said today that the queries on the flying saucers had affected their regular work. So far this year they have received 432 written reports on sightings. They said one man works full time on the queries and has had to turn over many of the questions to the Directorate of Military Intelligence for reply. That office has turned to the Air Technical Center at Dayton, Ohio, for help.",
  "location" : "Dayton, OH",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_248",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1952",
  "desc": "_San Bernadino Sun_. **TRICKY RADAR HABITS PROVE SAUCER \"BLIPS\" CAN BE ALMOST ANYTHING.** Air Force experts said today it was nothing to be excited about that radar has picked up the so-called flying saucers. They said it was nothing unusual for radar, \"a tricky gadget\", to pick up rain squalls, birds, water spouts, and even surf spray.",
  "location" : "Dayton, OH",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_249",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1952",
  "desc": "**PHOTOGRAPH OF WASHINGTON AIR INVASION.** A flying saucer described as looking like \"a flying smoke ring\" is shown with landscape beneath in today's _Middletown Journal_. The photograph was taken by a farmer near Kutztown, Pennsylvania. No identification or data concerning the picture is given.",
  "location" : "Kutztown, Pennsylvania",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_250",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1952",
  "desc": "_San Bernardino Sun_. **DON'T DESTROY SAUCERS, THEY ARE FROM SPACE.** The Air Force received a wire Wednesday from Cincinnati, Ohio, urging reconsideration of the order to shoot down flying saucers. The sender, whose name was withheld, said that advanced aerodynamics indicated the saucers were probably intercelestial in origin.",
  "location" : "Cincinnati, OH",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_251",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1952",
  "desc": "_The Richfield Reporter_. **WHOOPS! THERE GOES THE 5:15 TO THE MOON!** The _Washington News_ thus headlined the photograph of four saucers caught in a \"V\" formation by Coast Guard photographer Shell R. Alpert at Salem, Mass., on July 16 and not released by the Pentagon until August 1. See https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-akron-beacon-journal-coast-guard-get/132167616/.",
  "location" : "Salem, MA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_252",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1952",
  "desc": "_New York Herald-Tribune_. **SHALLOW PUN OF DEEP THINKER.** Sidelight appearing in Hy Gardner's \"Early Bird Coast to Coast\" column. Deep-Thinker Dept: Wonder if those flying saucers are Taft and Kefauver buttons?",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_253",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1952",
  "desc": "_Racine (Wis.) Journal Times_. **HARDER TO BRUSH OFF 'FLYING SAUCERS' AS SILLY.** NEA - For the first time, numerous and simultaneous sightings have been confirmed by official radar observers. This happened twice under almost identical circumstances on two successive Saturday nights. This new chapter in the weird flying saucer story was written in the skies over Washington for six hours before dawn Sunday, July 20, and again one week later. Airlines Pilot S.C. Pierman saw six objects at the same time the C.A.A. radar did.",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_254",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1952",
  "desc": "_L.A. Ledger_. **NOSTRADAMUS GETS IN ACT.** Dick Williams, amusement editor, reported that Carey Wilson, a Nostradamus authority, believes the seer was prophesying the coming of the flying saucers in his 1672 folio edition. \"Heavenly objects almost without number,\" he wrote, \"will become known to the human race. This amazing revelation will neither make anyone rich nor do anyone harm.\"",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_255",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1952",
  "desc": "_L.A. Mirror_. **'SHUTTERBUG' GRABS PHOTO OF SAUCERS.** Under the AP dateline from Washington the Coast Guard released a photo taken at 9:35 a.m. on July 16, by Shell R. Alpert, 21, an station photographer attached to the Coast Guard at Salem, Mass. The photo shows clearly four round objects. Each saucer appears to have two identical shafts of light extending across its center and protruding at the forward and rear ends.",
  "location" : "Salem, MA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_256",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1952",
  "desc": "_San Bernadino Sun._ **FLYING SAUCERS SEEN IN CITY AREA.** At least three people reported seeing round or silvery objects in the sky over Muscoy and the South part of San Bernardino. One report said a large silver object swooped down on him and several other witnesses, then shot upward, hovering over them for several seconds before disappearing.",
  "location" : "Muscoy, CA and south San Bernardino, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_257",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1952",
  "desc": "**SNIPERS TAKE AFTER FLYING SAUCERS.** Flying saucers are bad enough, but combine them with a phantom sniper's bullet, and you've got something. Jordan M. Reifel and his wife were entertaining neighbors last night in their backyard when suddenly they heard what sounded like \"a .22 caliber rifle shot and the whine of a bullet\". A few minutes later, the worried Reifels said, everybody in the patio observed a formation of white things zooming overhead in the sky. All of this would have been discounted by Pasadena police, but there were several other reports which mentioned saucers and sniper bullets as well.",
  "location" : "Pasadena, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_258",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Times._ **FLYING DISKS AGAIN IN LOS ANGELES AREA.** Two flying saucers flew over Southern California yesterday and reports from witnesses flooded various media with accounts. The Lancaster Sheriff's substation said it received six calls describing the objects which hovered at about 1,000 ft. In Palmdale, C.A.A. operations specialists, Don Benson and Ray Hollings, observed two saucers for about 30 minutes and reported them to George AFB but no jet interceptors were sent aloft. Another report came from Jack Roff, game warden, who spotted similar objects over Lake Hughes. And in Burbank, a silver, oblong object was observed just meandering over the city at about 8:30 a.m. by Mrs. Dick Turpin.",
  "location" : "Palmdale, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_259",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1952",
  "desc": "_San Bernadino Sun_. **TOM SWIFT MAY BE MAKING SAUCERS IN BID.** Hal Boyle, in his _Notebook_ column relieves the flying saucer tension with a bit of levity. The question he asks of the Air Force seems to cover a lot of ground: \"With all the men in the sky in the last world war, no flying saucers were reported before 1947. Were optical illusions and weather changes invented in 1947?\"",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_260",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1952",
  "desc": "_Pasadena Sun_. **AIR FORCE SARGE BEGS TO DIFFER.** Dan Lundberg on KTTV interviewed interviewed a 21-year-old ex-Air Force sergeant who shot a picture of a flying saucer a year ago, which was just recently released. He was, too. He's an old hand at balloons and says that regardless what his superior say this was not a balloon.",
  "location" : "Pasadena, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_261",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1952",
  "desc": "_San Bernadino Sun_. **BALLOON TURNS OUT TO BE SAUCER.** AP - T.L. Fox, a Carlsbad contractor, saw an object gliding from the north at about 6:30 in the morning. He thought it was a balloon and started for his car to go after it. Before he could get to the car the thing had grown to many times its size and had leveling off. It then maneuvered and shot toward Carlsbad Airport \"with a burst of speed which has never been equalled by any jet I know of and no plane with wings attached could have made that sharp a turn\".",
  "location" : "Pasadena, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_262",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Times_. **SAUCERS WAVE BOMBER ADIEU.** Two flying saucers were observed by a woman supervisor at the Indio Ground Observation Post, Col. O.S. Dresher reported yesterday. He released a copy of a report made by Mrs. Pauline Watts, who made the same report to the USAF. She said she saw the saucers at 2:40 p.m. on July 14, near two B-36 bombers. \"These two round disks were stationary in the sky, very metallic and shiny, much brighter than any plane I have seen. They looked to be about one-third the size of the bombers if seen at the same height. Finally they took off in a straight up direction as one bomber approached closer towards them and in seconds they were gone.\" See https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-woman-sights-two-o/132214693/.",
  "location" : "Indio, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_263",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1952",
  "desc": "**PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR POOH-POOHS THE FLYING SAUCERS.** The flying saucers \"just ain't there\" said Dr. Jessie Sprowls, abnormal professor of abnormal psychology at the University of Maryland. Apologizing for his emphasis-aimed lapse in grammar, the professor attributed the nationwide deluge of reports on strange objects in the upper atmosphere to \"primarily to hallucinations.\" In stating: \"The American people are victims of mob psychology and not one in a thousand is capanle of independent thought\", Dr. Sprowls slavishly repeats the official Pentagonian party line.",
  "location" : "University of Maryland",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_264",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Examiner_. **L.A. SAUCERS CAVORT IN SKY.** Grant C. Hinton of Huntington Park told deputies at the Sheriff's station that he and his family and neighbors saw two distinct objects in the sky Saturday. He said the disks seemed to change color, and remained on the horizon for 15 minutes. Merl Clausen of Downey reported he saw an \"arrow-like object\" remain stationary over his home for half an hour and then head due east.\\nA student from the University of Southern California reported from Burbank that he had seen two flying saucers over Universal Studios in North Hollywood. He said they were large and blue colored, with lights that blinked off and on.",
  "location" : "Huntington Park, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_265",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1952",
  "desc": "**EGG-SHAPED DISC OVER NEW ORLEANS.** A preacher's son, along with the administrative assistant of an evangelist, reported seeing an egg-shaped flying saucer streak across the New Orleans sky about 7:30 pm Monday. In a telephone report the two young men described the object as a white light which materialized and then vanished as it hurtled in a southeasterly direction, all in the space of about 40 seconds. At first they thought it was a falling star but they added, \"it couldn't have been because it followed a horizontal line of flight.\"",
  "location" : "New Orleans, LA",
  "time" : "19:30",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_266",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1952",
  "desc": "_Racine Journal_. **SAUCERS OBSERVING 'POLICE ACTION'.** Imaginary or real, those flying saucers have popped up in Korea and in Japan, and are keeping pilots of the Air Defense Command in constant alert across the US. Headquarters of the ADC at Ent AFB, Colo., said \"there has been a flurry of reports on saucers for the past two weeks, keeping their pilots busy.\" In Korea, Commanders of the Far East Naval forces and the 5th Air Force disclosed that a Canadian destroyer recently recorded two such objects on its radar. A Navy report said officers and men aboard the _Crusader_ saw the saucer on the night of July 10. Radar placed the objects two miles high and seven miles away. A report issued a day or two later dismissed the radar find as the planet Jupiter.",
  "location" : "Ent AFB, CO, Japan and Korea",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_267",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Times_. **THEY ASKED FOR THEM!** Reports continued to roll into Air Force filter-centers at Pasadena and Santa Ana yesterday. Descriptions of the objects sighted were varying but the Air Force announced it will continue to study them. Two sky watchers at Laguna Beach reported seeing an airborne object moving past their post at about 11:20 a.m. Tuesday, but the Air Force stamped it as secret until yesterday. The disk-shaped thing sparked brilliantly in the southwest sky, reversed its direction of travel and then disappeared, according to the sky watcher. Other reports came in from Pasadena, Huntington Park, Universal City, North Hollywood and Los Angeles.",
  "location" : "Pasadena, Huntington Park, Universal City, North Hollywood, and Santa Ana, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_268",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1952",
  "desc": "_The Times-Picaqune_. **JAPAN, FORMOSA REPORT SAUCERS.** The newspaper _Yomiuri_ said Monday it had received more than 150 letters from persons reporting they saw flying saucers over Japan on Friday night. Japanese astronomers, however, unanimously agreed the objects were meteors. In Taipeh, Formosa, newspapers quoted a Chinese man and wife as saying they saw two shiny circular objects Saturday morning streak eastward across the city at 10-minute intervals. The couple described them as going faster than a jet but slower than a meteor.",
  "location" : "Tokyo, Japan and Taiwan",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_269",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1952",
  "desc": "**SAUCER PEEKS AT LACKLAND AFB.** Seven NCO's from the 3731st and 3732nd Basic Military Training Squadrons, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, sighted an object they all believed to be a flying saucer and reported the sighting to S. Sgt. Jerrold E. Baker. A/2C Peter D'Angelo, first noticed the silver, saucer-shaped object high in the sky and called its attention to other NCOs present. Descriptions from all those who witnessing the phenomenon confirmed \"it was something I never saw before.\" Subsequently, phone calls were made to the weather bureau at Kelly and Randolph AFB and neither had released any balloons previous to the sighting. This was the only object all agreed it could possibly have been before the calls were made.",
  "location" : "Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_270",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1952",
  "desc": "_Los Angeles Examiner_. **AIR FORCE DENIES SAUCERS OURS.** Major General Roger H. Ramey said today that saucers could not be Soviet built because the Russians have no ability to produce an object that uses such a tremendous source of power that it can't be traced by radar. He further stated that the saucers definitely were not our own, the Air Force experts have dismissed 80 percent of the 1,500 saucer reports as \"natural and considers the interplanetary origin explanation for the saucers as only a possibility.\" See https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-republic-top-us-air-force-genera/132215927/.",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_271",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1952",
  "desc": "**'SPACE-SAUCER' WOULD HAVE LONG FLIGHT.** Frank Carey, an AP Science reporter, in a syndicated column says that roundtrip travel to the earth from Mars and Venus would involve nearly three years for the Martians, just over two years for the Venusians. Carey backs up this statement with computations dealing with spaceships which travel at a snail-like 25,000 mph. However, Carey does concede that Saucerians must have licked the interplanetary fuel consumption problem if they can afford to do all the nocturnal cruising around the Earth that has been credited to them.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_272",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1952",
  "desc": "_San Bernardino Sun_. **AIR FORCE STILL LOOKING FOR LOST PIECE OF THAT CAPTURED SAUCER.** Next spotters of strange aerial craft will be asked to fill out an Air Force form which will eventually be processed by the 27th Air Division intelligence officer at Norton Air Base. The Air Force, however, refused to comment on what they will do with the forms. The form has 25 questions concerning a description of the object, its surroundings and the time it was spotted. There is one loaded question, \"Did you get any fragments?\"",
  "location" : "Norton Air Base",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_273",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1952",
  "desc": "_Albuquerque Journal_. **SPRINGER EDITOR NOW A BELIEVER IN SAUCERS.** Springer newspaperman Ed Guthman and his wife spotted a flying saucer while driving to Los Vegas NM. He got such a good look at it that he's converted from a skeptic to a believer in the things. Guthman said it looked like it was about a mile away and if it was, it had to be around 100 feet in diameter. Just ahead of a seeming vane there was a dark spot in the body which could have been an observation port.",
  "location" : "Springer, NM",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_274",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1952",
  "desc": "**FORT BRAGG BRIEFS HAMILTON FIELD ON LANDED SAUCER.** First Lt. William Clopton of the Air Force reported that in the summer of 1950 an article from a Fort Bragg newspaper was posted on the Hamilton Field bulletin board, revealing that the minister of a church had been permitted by Air Force Intelligence to view a saucer, that had crashed with two small men on it, both dead. They were described as fair, with blue eyes, beardless with beautiful undecayed teeth and wore skin-tight blue uniforms made of heavy metallic thread with a broad waste belt. Their provisions consisted of very heavy water, large wafers which when analyzed contained vitamins and minerals similar to ours. Half of the pilots viewed this report scepticism, the other half believed it might possibly have occurred. (rg - Is this MO41?)",
  "location" : "Fort Bragg, Hamilton Field",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_275",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1952",
  "desc": "**EVEN MAYORS CAN SEE 'EM.** A former Grainesville mayor who is a member of the Board of Education has joined the ranks of the \"I-saw-a-flying-saucer-society.\" H.A. Latham accompanied by his brother and son spotted the thing in the sky Tuesday night while fishing in a lake about 10 miles south of here. \"I'd been skeptical up to then of all these flying saucers,\" the former mayor said, \"all three of us saw the same object at the same time.\" He described the object as cylindrical in shape, moving in an arc, first slowly and then rapidly to the west. Latham said he was sure it was not an airplane nor a shooting star or a reflection.",
  "location" : "Gainesville, Texas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_276",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1952",
  "desc": "**RANCH MARKET OFFERS NEW COME-ON.** Patrons of Hollywood's famous Ranch Market were surprised today with a new attraction. A silvery object that looked like a B-29 without wings hovered over the Vine Street store. The bluish-gray cigar-shaped object, sporting four triangular-shaped appendages on one side, played hide and seek among the Hollywood clouds.",
  "location" : "Hollywood, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_277",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1952",
  "desc": "**L.A. TIMES HUSH-HUSHES CALIFORNIA SIGHTING.** Jean Logan and her daughter, watching a Navy Blimp fly over their home, noticed a glittering something in the sky a long way up. It was bright red and as it turned and caught the sun, it changed to silver and then back to red. They called the police who gave them a Sycamore number in Pasadena. This number said many calls had come in, and that no weather balloon or any other kind known were in the neighborhood except the Navy Blimp and they were considering it a flying saucer. The _L.A. Times_ insisted the next day it was something the Air Force was experimenting with.",
  "location" : "Hollywood, California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_278",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1952",
  "desc": "_San Bernardino Sun-Telegram_. **BUCK ROGER'S 25TH CENTURY OUTDATED.** The _Sun-Telegram_ runs a daily comic strip called _Twin Earths_. It deals with a planet equal in size and composition to Earth and equal distance away from the sun. It revolves in the Earth's orbit, but on the other side of the sun, this never visible until someone perfects a space ship capable of flying around the sun. Authors Oskar Lebeck and A. McWilliams keep up with the times by having flying disks the main method of transportation on the other earth, outdating Buck Rogers' rocketships.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_279",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1952",
  "desc": "**ONE GOES OVER THE FALLS -- WAY OVER.** AP -- An unidentified object was seen last night racing through the sky near the mouth of the Niagara River and then hovering for some time over the Holland Canal which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. The object was described as being a brilliant mass of colored lights flashing on and off in various combinations.",
  "location" : "Youngstown, New York",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_280",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1952",
  "desc": "_The Tidings_. **RATIONAL BEINGS COULD EXIST ON OTHER PLANETS, SAYS THEOLOGIAN.** Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, Dean of Sacred Theology at Catholic University wrote: \"Neither revelation, the common teaching of the Fathers, tradition, nor the solumn pronouncements of the Popes rule out the possibility of life, perhaps similar to ours on another planet.\" He added that if they possessed the immortality once enjoyed by Adam and Eve \"it would be foolish for our superjet or rocket pilots to attempt to shoot them. They would be unkillable.\" Also see https://angelusnews.com/local/california/the-tidings-118-years-old-and-cpunting/.",
  "location" : "Washington DC",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_281",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1952",
  "desc": "_The New York Times_. **FLYING SAUCERS EXPECTED AS METEOR DISPLAY BEGINGS TONIGHT.** Robert B. Coles of Hayden Planetarium predicted here that flying saucers would be reported in great numbers this week if the weather was good. They will just be reports, Mr. Coles hastened to add and will be based on sightings of the annual celestial display of Perseid meteors which begins tonight. The meteors will be visible in the night skies until the next Wednesday night as a fiery shower of radiant particles which seem to originate in the constellation Perseus. They will reach their peak between midnight Tuesday and dawn Wednesday. Mr. Coles suggested no explanation for saucer sightings occuring the other 11 months of the year.",
  "location" : "Manhattan, NY",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_282",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1952",
  "desc": "Also Aug. 12, 1952. _Los Angeles Herald Express_. **FLYING SAUCER MYSTERY 'SOLVED' BY CALIFORNIA ENGINEERS.** In a two-day front-page spread, bylined by Lyle Abbot, rocket engineers Roland Gillespie and Winthrop K. Coxe explained flying saucers as the result of an electromagnetic vortex in the air.",
  "location" : "California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_283",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1952",
  "desc": "**FLYING SAUCERS AN OLD STORY.** Hal Boyle, substituting for Bob Considine, devoted a column to Charles Fort and his impressive roundup of saucer sightings dating back 100 years ago, before the age of airplanes or Skyhook balloons. \"Were observers subject then, as now to the same hallucinations?\" asks Byle. (Odds were laid that Considine will not invite Boyle back as his guest columnist near year.)",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_284",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1952",
  "desc": "_San Antonio Express_. **FLYING TURTLE AND WOMAN GO THRU RED LIGHTS.** Everybody thinks turtles don't fly -- so what was the thing Mrs. Flora Rogers saw paddlying through the air over her West Texas ranch? \"It was shaped like a turtle,\" she said. But Mrs. Rogers figured the object was really some sort of radar machine taking pictures of the land beneath. The turtle emitted a blue flame, made no sound, lacked windows and doors, and flew about 20 feet high across the road in front of her. The turtle didn't frighten her until it zoomed straight up and disappeared in seconds. \"I was so scared,\" she said, \"that I had to lift my feet into the car. I drove the 18 miles to the Sheriff's office and didn't stop for a light or anything.\"",
  "location" : "West Texas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_285",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1952",
  "desc": "**I WISH I WERE IN DIXIE.** Civil Aeronautics officials in Raleigh, North Carolina, reported that orange-red objects have been sighted streaking across the skies for the past two nights. Included among the list of those who fancy illusions was a professor at North Carolina State College (requested his name be withheld) claiming to see seven or eight objects traveling at a high altitude and a tremendous speed.",
  "location" : "Raleigh, North Carolina",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_286",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1952",
  "desc": "_The Cincinnati Reporter_. **MRS. ALLENDORE SEES IT THROUGH.** Mrs. Lee Allendorf of 6229 Montgomery Rd., Pleasant Ridge, Ohio, rebuffed by metropolitan dailies, reported to _The Reporter_ that she and her family were awakened last Thursday, August 7, 1952, at dawn by a steady, rumbling, whirring noise. They glanced out their second-story window to see a large metal object, oval in shape, and looking \"like the lower half of a dirigible hovering 80-90 feet over the Monte Vista Theatre.\" The noise from the craft was penetrating and \"seemed to shake the whole house,\" she said. The three viewers resented the fact that the daily papers had treated their report in a light vein and hoped something might be done in the way of a thorough investigation. All were agreed they saw something which did not come under the conventional rocket or aircraft classification. When last seen, the saucer was headed in the direction of Norwood. _The Reporter_ gave the story a full front-page streamer headline.",
  "location" : "Pleasant Ridge, Ohio",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_287",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1952",
  "desc": "**CHIEF AIRLINE PILOT BOXES MENZEL'S PSYCHOSIS.** Capt. Max M. Jacoby, who has been flying for 16 years, disclosed Thursday that he chased a big, orange light, apparently not of earthly origin, Wednesday night in a transport plane. The light was of the type generally put in the flying saucer category, but Jacoby declined to call it more than a \"light\" for fear he would be ridiculed or laughed at. He never did catch the light.",
  "location" : "Dallas, Texas",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_288",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1952",
  "desc": "_The Racine (Wisconsin) Journal-Times._ **CHIEF MERCHANT OFFICER GIVES MENZEL THE BRUSH-OFF.** Two bright lights sighted in the overcast above Lake Michigan last Sunday night have been officially reported to U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Chicago, it was learned today. The fireballs first sighted by Edward Langenfeld Jr. on his father's farm were called to the attention of the family and friends. All watched the lights for 30 minutes, one above the other. One would disappear for minutes and reappear, then the other would repeat the process. This alternating began at 9 p.m. and continued until 11:30 p.m. C.W.O. John Needham, from Racine Coast Guard station, investigated and said he was satisfied it was not due to weather phenomenon or a mirage. He said the information in his official report was restricted.",
  "location" : "Lake Michigan",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_289",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1952",
  "desc": "_The Journal of Philosophy._ **PHILOSOPHER SUGGESTS BRAINS BETTER ELSEWHERE.** B.A.G. Fuller of the University of Southern California read a paper on Flying Saucers, advancing the premise that man's belief that he was the center of the universe may be a mistaken idea and \"that elsewhere intelligent life may have occurred equal in some respects and in some, perhaps all, superior to his particular brand.\" The philosopher cited Jones, Wells, Hoyle, Scully, Haldane, Heard, Von Fritsch, and Plato to support his brief.",
  "location" : "University of Southern California",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_290",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1952",
  "desc": "_The New York Times_. **WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PLANET VENUS EXPLANATION?** The Air Force announced details of the conversation between Captain Thomas Mantell and the control tower which took place on January 7, 1948. At about 2:45 p.m., Mantell reported sighting an unidentified object \"directly ahead and above me and moving half my speed. It appears metallic and of tremendous size.\" A few moments later, Mantell reported the object was moving about the same speed--(360 mph) and \"it was bright and climbing away from me.\" Captain Mantell then said he was going up to 20,000 feet, and if he failed to catch it, he would abandon the chase. That was his last message. No identification of the object has been announced.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_291",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1952",
  "desc": "_The Oregonian_. **SAUCER SCARE HITS RUSSIANS.** The Russians, too, according to reliable information here, are becoming concerned about flying saucers. A German scientist's daughter, who lived in the Russian zone and was conscripted for work in a Moscow laboratory, escaped to the western zone recently. This girl, 24, told the high commissioners of officials that the Russians had come to the conclusion that flying saucers are not figments of imagination but something real. In the beginning, she said, the Russians dismissed the heavenly objects as propaganda released by the Western world as a scare in the hope of convincing timid persons of the great scientific might of the West. This did not bother them. They thought the entire program laughable. According to the scientist's daughter, the Russians do not believe the mysterious objects are space ships from another planet.",
  "location" : "East Germany, Soviet Union",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_292",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1952",
  "desc": "_Hollywood Citizen-News_. **CMDR LOTT RAPS AF AND FBI.** One minute after he retired to inactive duty last midnight Navy Commander Dave Lott, former deputy commanding officer of the Armed Forces Radio Services, sent telegrams listing his complaints against the service to government big wheels and released a statement to the press. \"The Air Force's handling of the flying saucer investigation,\" Lott said, \"was one of the most inept, disgraceful, and downright ludicrous displays of inefficiency ever displayed in a governmental operation.\" He flagged a \"gag rule\" which he said prohibits members of the services from engaging in political discussions or criticizing the Armed Forces.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_293",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/21/1952",
  "desc": "_San Bernardino Sun_. **'FLYING DISKS' INVADE MINING FIELD IN DESERT.** \"Flying Disks\" is the name of the placer claim staked out by J.S. Burbridge at the head of Rattlesnake Canyon in the Morongo Mining District. Burbridge, who lives at 1124 W. Third St., had his claim recorded Wednesday.",
  "location" : "Rattlesnake Canyon, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_294",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1952",
  "desc": "**MYSTERIOUS S.D. AERIAL VISITOR SEEN HERE.** A whatwasit took a quick cruise about San Diego skies last night. Witnessed by at least three residents, the mysterious object hurled earthward like a meteor, leveled off, circled the city slowly and noiselessly and then disappeared to the west. \"I think I witnessed the arrival of a space-ship said Donald Carr, of 2408 East 18th St., National City, a design engineer at Convar. All those witnessing the object felt its flight and appearance were proof that flying saucers exist and are not from the earth.",
  "location" : "San Diego, CA",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_295",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1952",
  "desc": "**ONE FOR MYOPIC MENZEL.** Seymour L. Hess, astronomer at Lowell Observatory here, said today he had seen \"a bright object in the sky, a disk visible to the naked eye.\" Hess had been studying atmospheric and weather conditions on Mars at Lowell Observatory. \"It was definitely not an airplane,\" Hess said. \"The object disappeared a few seconds after passing before a cloud. The estimated size of the disk through the binoculars for a distance of 6,000 to 12,000 feet is equivalent to an object 3 to 6 feet in diameter.",
  "location" : "Flagstaff, Arizona",
  "ref": "[Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256)",
  "source_id" : "Scully_296",
  "source" : "Scully",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
}
] }