The Morning Call

Paterson New Jersey, Saturday, July 3, 1954

 

Phone Lineman On Pole Sees Fast Flying Disc.

 

    John A. Caulley, of 128 South Maple Ave., Ridgewood, a telephone lineman with the New Jersey Telephone Company for 23 years has seen a lot of strange sights from his lofty perches but nothing stranger than the object that went flashing across the sky over the Hudson River, yesterday afternoon.

    Caulley desrcibed his experience to the Morning Call and James H. Cox, Paterson Civil Defense Disaster Control director last night.

    At about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon Caulley was was working with another crewman on a pole at East River Dr. and the Boulevard, in West New York when he spotted the strange object against the sky, that was deep blue at the time.

   "Ity was round and disc-like in appearance and traveled at an angle to the ground, heading in the direction of Edgewater and Yonkers," he said. "I saw it for eight seconds and when I moved to the other side of the pole for a better view, it disappeared behind a cloud bank."

    Caulley says the object appeared to be of some translucent material. Asked how fast it was traveling he estimated "so fast a jet would have a hard time trying to catch up with it."

   At the U.S. Air Force, White plains Filter Center, a spokesman said that the center had received no reports of strange flying objects from any of its area Ground Observer Corps. Ground Observer Corps sky watchers are directed to report unidentified objects to the center.

    The fact that the object was not reported does not nessarily preclude its presence, since nearly all Ground Observer Corps posts are undermanned, C.D. Director Cox said last night. Intensive recruitment campaigns have failed to bring enough shywatchers to main the corps at effective strength and to provide the 24-hour skywatch that is America's only safeguard from sneak enemy attack.

   The Flying disc was reported over Paterson about 11 o'clock last night by three Paterson police officers.

 

SEEN OVER PATERSON

 

  Patrolmen William Gibbons, Anthony Ignoffo and Henry Fiduccia were making a patrol call to the Eastside section when they noticed a crowd standing at Madison Ave. and Market St. They stopped the patrol and alighted to learn the reason for the gathering and then in the sky saw a bright disc moving in a westerly direction.  

 

  

From APRO Files  

 

 

Walesville NY

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Notes: An F-94 crashed at Walesille, NY, at around 12:30 P.M., on July 2, 1954.  A UFO was seen in the area. A UFO was reported near Paterson, New Jersey, at west New York City, on July 2, 1954, at 3:00 P.M. and again at 11:00 P.M.