![]() 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'. |
| Brad Sparks: Jan. 23, 1949. 4 miles S of Tillamook,
Oregon (at 45°22'17" N, 123°48'16" W [elev. 137 ft
ASL]). 11:05 a.m. Machinist and former
wartime air defense observer Charles E. Leckington
and wife Rose C. while driving S on Hwy 101, about
1/4 to 1/2 mile N of Pleasant Valley, saw a shiny,
silvery, round stationary object about 10-15 ft size
glinting in the sun to the SE at about 35° elevation
about 2,000 ft height about 1/2 to 3/4 mile away (in
its belated investigation in April, AFOSI claimed a
height figure of 500 ft without explaining the
discrepancy). When he went inside his shop
with Allen Hughes of neighboring Hughes Grocery to
get binoculars the object had disappeared. No
sound or trail. Burt [Bert?] J. Smith,
father-in-law of Leckington, living in house behind
the Leckingtons, (at 45°22'04" N, 123°48'07" W ?
[elev. 155 ft ASL]) saw for about 1 min the polished
silver saucer-shaped object reflecting sunlight
[nearly?] overhead at first, about 1,000-2,000 ft
[1,400-2,000] altitude, angular size of full moon
(0.5°), then moving NE at about 30-50 mph [30-35
mph], for about 1 min to disappearance at 45° angle
[elevation]. (Sparks; FOIA; BB
files; Saunders/FUFOR Index) 2.5-3
mins 3 witnesses ~1 Full Moon
triangulation
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