 Case Directory Category 1, Distant Encounters Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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Classification of Distant Encounter is usually
an incident involving an object more than 500
feet from the witness. At night it is
classified as a "nocturnal light" (NL) and
during the day as a "daylight disc" (DD). The
size of the object or the viewing conditions
may render the object in greater detail but
yet not qualify the sighting as a Close
Encounter which is an object within
500'. |
Flashes
In Distance Confirm Arnold Case?
June 24, 1947
Diamond Gap, Washington
June 24, 1947
Diamond Gap, Washington
| Fran Ridge: June 24, 1947; Diamond Gap, Washington
3:00 PM. Robert W.
Hubach, a member of the Washington State forestry
service, was on watch at a lookout tower at Diamond
Gap, a small settlement near the town of White
Salmon, just south of Mount Adams, when he heard an
airplane. "It was black. While I watched it I saw
flashes in the distance quite high up in the east.
They.seemed to be going in a straight line and made
a strange noise, higher pitched than most airplanes
make." Hubach, who had not seen a newspaper
while he was on watch Monday until Saturday, said he
believed that the objects were a new type of
airplane being tested. "They did not look like a
flying wing." (Newsclippings. Loren Gross, UFOS: A
History 1947, page 8)
Detailed reports and documents articles/DiamondGapWA1947.pdf (Loren Gross, Barry Greenwood) http://www.nicap.org/articles/oregonian1947.pdf (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos) http://www.nicap.org/articles/oregonian1947_crop.jpg (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos) |
