 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'. |
Three
Huge Saucers Fly Over Ocean
July 3, 1947
San Diego NAS, California
July 3, 1947
San Diego NAS, California
| Fran Ridge: July 3, 1947; San Diego NAS, California
12:45 p.m. Two motor machinists, Chief Robert L
Jackson and Chief William Baker, both Navy Petty
Officers, were at the Naval Air Station when they
observed three saucer shaped objects twice the size
of Navy aircraft, gleaming in the sun like aluminum
about 20 miles west of the station, over the Pacific
Ocean. The officers said the objects were flying
about 400 mph, came in from the west and circled,
then flew back over the Pacific. "They were about
half-way from the horizon," Jackson said. "They
appeared to be round as saucers and were flying
fairly close together in formation." The wire
service accounts of this report did not say whether
a report had been made out to Navy officials.
(Source: San Diego, CA Union 4 Jul 1947, Bloecher
Case 194)
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