6. Duncanville, Tex., January 6, 1953. Strange lighted object seen
by CAA tower operator and others.
At 0718Z, January 6, 1953, the 147th AC&W Squadron,
Duncanville, Texas, was notified by the CAA ARTCC at Meecham
Field, Fort Worth, Texas, that they received numerous calls of
an unidentified flying object northeast of Dallas, Texas. The AC&W
unit at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, reported that they had picked up a target
by radar twenty miles southwest of Paris, Texas. This target was moving
moving west at an estimated speed of 600 knots at 7,500 feet in
altitude. An arrowhead-shaped object was seen by some witnesses.
Commenting on the possibility that what the watchers saw might
have been a planet, E. M. Brewer, president of the Texas Astronomers
Society, said only
two planets, Jupiter and Venus, were at all bright this time of the
year.
LITTLE CHANCE OF MISTAKE
Venus, he said, sets at 9 p.m. and Jupiter about midnight. Mr.
Brewer believed skilled observers, such as many who reported seeing the
object,
could not possibly have mistaken the planet Jupiter for anything else.
| Page ID
(PID) |
 MISC-PBB2-695 |
| Collection |
Other Official
Microfilm |
| Roll Description |
Misc Blue Book
Files Roll 2 |
| Document Code |
|
Frames 695 - 704
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