 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'. |
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Hundred Navy Men Witness Zig-Zagging Object
July 8, 1947
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
July 8, 1947
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
| Ted Bloecher: July 8, 1947; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
5:30 p.m., HST. More than 100 Navy men watched an
oblong shaped object over the base at Pearl Harbor. It
was described by most witnesses as "silvery colored,
like aluminum, with no wings or tail, sort of round or
oblong-shaped, and moving both slow and fast." The
object was "very high," and moving westward toward
Honolulu in "alternating bursts of speed" and in a
"slow, zigzagging" flight path. Among the Navy men
reporting the object were Yeoman 2c Ted Purdue, 21, of
McClain, Texas; Yeoman 1c Douglas Kacherle, 22, of New
Bedford, Mass.; Seaman 1c Donald Ferguson, 19, of
Indianapolis, Indiana; Yeoman Morris Kzamme, 13, of
LaCrosse, Wisconsin; and Seaman Albert Delancey, 19,
of Salem, West Virginia. Navy officials at the base
reported that they had begun an investigation of the
reports. A check of balloon flights was made and it
was learned that at 4:35 p.m. a weather balloon had
been sent aloft from the Honolulu Airport, but had
risen quickly and was carried off to the south. (Case
769, The UFO Wave of 1947).Detailed reports and documents Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947_SectionIII.htm (Ted Bloecher) |