 Case Directory Category 1, Distant Encounters Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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| A Hynek
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'. |
30'
Disc Seen From Golf Course
June 21, 1950
Misawa, Japan
June 21, 1950
Misawa, Japan
| Dan Wilson: June 21, 1950, Misawa AFB, Japan (BB)
At 3:05 p.m. local time (0605Z), Capt. Obermiller _
Fighter Bomber Wing on a golf course observed a
circular-shaped object estimated to be 30 feet in
diameter and 5 feet thick at 7000 feet altitude.
Object appeared to be traveling at 650 MPH and
parallel to an F-80 aircraft at 1000 feet above.
Object rose vertically 1000 feet, seemed to change
direction and rapidly disappeared at an estimated 975
MPH. The witness is a rated transport and fighter
pilot.
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