July 26th-31st, 1952 UFO & Entity Sightings Archive
1952: July 26th-31st
UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
The month that redefined American UFO history closes with its second and final Washington weekend. On the night of July 26-27, radar returns filled the scopes at National Airport and Andrews again, and this time controllers noted the returns behaved differently from the week before, more erratic, “capable of dropping out of the pattern at will.” Two F-94s, callsigns Shirley Red 1 and 2, chased lights they could never close on. Three days later, on July 29, the Air Force held its largest press conference since the end of World War II: Major General John Samford blamed temperature inversions and misidentified stars, while admitting that “a certain percentage” of the reports came from credible witnesses describing things that could not be waved away.
Away from the capital, the July 1952 UFO sightings kept coming. A Montana motorist near Ennis filmed discs bursting from a self-forming cloud while some twelve witnesses watched. An Osceola, Wisconsin radar unit tracked an hour of targets that appeared and vanished 30 to 70 miles out while an F-51 pilot scrambled after them. Twenty objects flew in a rounded “V” over Burley, Idaho, a Phoenix mother and son saw a flying wing the size of a B-36, and a 16-year-old at Kirtland AFB watched a bright white circle slide into the clouds on July 30.
Date: July 25 (or 27), 1952
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Time: 2300Z
Summary: Mr. James R. Thomas observed one cylindrical object with a domed top and bottom, moving northwest to southeast in an upright position. The object disappeared suddenly. Approximately 90 seconds.
Source: BBU 1664 (number unconfirmed)
Date: July 26, 1952
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Time: 12:15 a.m.
Summary: USAF Capt. H. A. Stone, along with men in the control towers at Fairfax Field and Municipal Airport, saw a greenish light with red-orange flashes descend from 40° to 10° elevation in the northwest. 1 hour.
Source: Berliner; BBU 1628
Date: July 26, 1952
Location: Hampton and between Newport News and Langley AFB, Virginia
Time: 12:15-12:45 a.m.
Summary: Ground observers saw a brilliant, luminous object alternating bright silver, red, and green, hovering over the James River Bridge at about 1,500 ft for half an hour, then ascending east, where it was seen by the Langley AFB tower. USAF crews of 2 F-94s and ground observers saw 4 round, silver/bluish objects in V formation shoot straight up and disappear at 5,000 ft; one was tracked by USN ground radar at Norfolk and by airborne radars.
Source: Weinstein; Project 1947; BBU
Date: July 26, 1952
Location: Langley AFB, Virginia
Time: 1430 hours
Summary: Capt. Daniel G. Moore and T/Sgt Edward W. Reamer of the 1907-7 AACS Detachment, Langley AFB, observed an unidentified target on radar approaching from the south, 15 miles out. Speed was determined at 2,600 mph, altitude below 5,000 ft. At 1450 hours, an unidentified target stopped and hovered for 2 minutes before resuming flight at extremely high speed.
Source: Unknown
Date: July 26, 1952
Location: Williams, California
Time: 5:15 p.m.
Summary: Air Defense Command radar detected a UFO; an F-94 jet interceptor was scrambled and locked onto the object with its radar. The crew saw a yellow-orange light, confirmed by both ground and airborne radar. The UFO “played tag” with the F-94, alternately accelerating away when it got close, then slowing until it caught up again.
Source: Ruppelt, pp. 222-223; BBU
Date: July 26, 1952
Location: Plainview, Texas
Time: 7:17 p.m.
Summary: Maj. Eldon A. Klapal and 1st Lt. Jack Chadurgian, in a T-33 on a flight from Kelly AFB to Denver, Colorado, observed an object that illuminated a brilliant white light while hovering, then flickered orange and/or bluish while moving.
Source: BBU
Date: July 26-27, 1952
Location: Andrews AFB and Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
Time: 8:00 p.m.-after midnight (roughly 9:50 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.)
Summary: The Second Washington National Airport Weekend. Radar operators at several airports, airline and F-94 fighter pilots sighted and tracked many unidentified blips and lights across the Washington area at varying speeds for over 3 hours. Pilot Lt. William Patterson (callsign Shirley Red 1), flying at 20,000 ft, and Capt. John McHugo (Shirley Red 2) were vectored toward clusters of blips near Andrews; Patterson later said: “I saw several bright lights. I was at my maximum speed, but even then I had no closing speed. Later I chased a single bright light which I estimated about 10 miles away. I lost visual contact with it about 2 miles.” ARTC controllers noted these returns behaved differently than the July 19-20 weekend — more haphazard, not following aircraft consistently, “capable of dropping out of the pattern at will,” with a “creeping appearance.” CAA flight inspector Bill Schreve, flying aircraft NC-12 at 2,200 ft, visually spotted 5 objects glowing orange to white at 10:46 p.m. Commercial pilots separately reported visuals ranging from a “cigarette glow” to simple lights. Two F-94s were scrambled from Newcastle at about 11:25 p.m. and vectored to targets with largely negative results, flying through “a batch of radar returns” without spotting anything, though one pilot saw 4 lights at once and, separately, a single light that “went out” when he tried to close. [Full Report]
Source: Berliner; Project 1947; CNN (Randle interview, “Invasion Washington: UFOs Over the Capitol”); BBU 1661
Date: July 26, 1952
Location: Atlantic Ocean, 200 miles S of New York City
Time: 8:30 p.m.
Summary: A USAF B-29 gunner with the 301st Bomb Wing saw 3 amber-edged white, flashing objects traveling at Mach 1.
Source: Project 1947; BBU
Date: July 26, 1952
Location: Florence, South Carolina
Time: 10:04-10:10 p.m.
Summary: Eastern Airlines Flight 606 Constellation pilot and 2 crew members saw a steady white light traveling at high speed in a straight line at 22,000 ft.
Source: Project 1947; BBU
Date: July 27, 1952
Location: 10 miles SSW of Columbus, Ohio
Time: 12:05 a.m.
Summary: A USAF pilot and crew chief of a B-25, with 3 Pentagon Colonels aboard, saw a white light with 4 flashing lights, stationary, then moving.
Source: Project 1947; BBU
Date: July 27, 1952
Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
Time: 10:05-10:20 a.m.
Summary: Three B-29 bomber crewmen on the ground saw many round, white objects fly straight and level, very fast: two at 10:05, one each at 10:10, 10:15, and 10:20.
Source: Berliner; BBU 1680
Date: July 27, 1952
Location: Unspecified
Time: 6:35 p.m.
Summary: A group of eight witnesses, including pilots and engineers, observed a large, silvery object moving rapidly at high altitude, then making a turn. As they watched, the object separated into seven discs, which formed into groups, circled, and sped out of sight. One pilot told investigators it appeared “as if a stack of coins had smoothly separated.”
Source: Air Force Intelligence report
Date: July 27, 1952
Location: Belleville, Illinois
Time: Between 7:20 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. CST
Summary: Four objects were observed on ground radar equipment (FPS-3) of the 798th AC&W Squadron. The objects were elliptical in shape, with target returns comparable to B-50 or B-36 echoes. Speed was estimated at 2,800-3,200 knots, traveling south to north and north to south. A second, distinct radar event at this same station within the same month (see the earlier July 12 Belleville standalone).
Source: Dan Wilson; BB
Date: July 27, 1952
Location: Washington, D.C.
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Summary: Both Air Force personnel and National Airport employees observed a large, round object reflecting sunlight as it hovered over the U.S. Capitol Building. After about one minute, the object wavered, then shot straight up, disappearing from sight.
Source: Air Force intelligence report
Date: July 27-28, 1952
Location: The Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
Time: 8:00 p.m. July 27 and 2:00 a.m. July 28
Summary: An unnamed witness observed a white light immediately over the Pentagon, then made a direct descent toward the building before stopping and veering off.
Source: Unknown
Date: July 27, 1952
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
Time: 8:30 p.m.
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Ellis saw 2 disc-shaped objects, illuminated by a phosphorus light, flying at an estimated 1,000 mph.
Source: Berliner; BBU 1684
Date: July 27, 1952
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Time: Unknown
Summary: A biologist reported a “flotilla” of rocket-like UFOs.
Source: UFOE, VI
Date: July 27, 1952
Location: Spokane, Washington
Time: Unknown
Summary: Several civilian and military observers saw between one and twelve objects over Spokane. Reports varied as to time, number of objects and maneuvers. The card calls it not a complete report.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: McChord AFB, Washington
Time: 2:15 a.m.
Summary: T/Sgt. Walstead and S/Sgt. Calkins of the 635th AC&W Squadron ADC radar site saw a dull, glowing, blue-green ball, the size of a dime at arm’s length, fly very fast, straight and level.
Source: Berliner; BBU 1708
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Osceola, Wisconsin
Time: 2:30 a.m.
Summary: Ground Control Intercept radar, an Air Force pilot, and a Ground Observer Corps plane spotter tracked several UFOs. USAF jets chased the objects by ground radar; the UFOs sped up and evaded the interceptors. Speed estimated 60-600 mph.
Source: UFOE, VIII
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Time: 12:31-2:37 a.m.
Summary: Mr. S. Robert Tralins, a private pilot’s license holder, observed 17 shooting lights moving in varied directions at extremely high speed.
Source: Unknown
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Time: Approx. 2:45 a.m. CST
Summary: A civilian woman watched ten blue-green discs at about 50,000 ft travel at high speeds for 15 minutes.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: McGuire AFB, New Jersey
Time: 6:00 a.m.
Summary: GCA radar operator M/Sgt. W. F. Dees and persons in the base control tower tracked a large cluster of very distinct blips on radar. Visual observation showed oblong objects with neither wings nor tail, which made a very fast turn, at one point in echelon formation. 55 seconds.
Source: Berliner; BBU 1707
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Bismarck, North Dakota
Time: 10:00 a.m. CST
Summary: Two civilian women saw two oval-shaped objects, about the size of DC-3 aircraft, for 15 to 20 seconds.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Los Angeles, California
Time: 12:15 p.m. PST
Summary: A civilian couple saw a single object very high over Los Angeles that seemed to revolve, oscillate and blink intermittently red and green.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Time: 9:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. CST
Summary: A civilian man, watching through a telescope, saw two bright objects resembling aircraft landing lights, without a beam, maintaining a constant orange-white color. The two objects were seen separately, about 90 minutes apart, at 9:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Burley, Idaho
Time: 9:50 p.m. MST
Summary: Three civilian men saw twenty oval objects, trailing flame, fly in a rounded “V” formation over Burley.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 28-29, 1952
Location: 20 miles W of Port Huron, Michigan
Time: 9:40-10:00 p.m.
Summary: An Aircraft Control and Warning Station in Michigan reported an extremely important case: Ground Control Intercept tracked a UFO by radar at a target speed of 550 knots. F-94s were scrambled to chase it; one got a radar lock-on while a bright, flashing light was seen visually at the same position at the same time. Though this case wasn’t listed among Blue Book’s official “unknowns” (there were 6 unknowns logged that same day), it convinced many at the time because of the UFO’s apparent behavior. Upgraded to SECRET within a week.
Source: BBU; CCL Item #17
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Heidelberg, West Germany
Time: 10:20 p.m.
Summary: Sgt. B. C. Grassmoen and WAC PFC A. P. Turner saw a saucer-shaped object with the appearance of light metal, giving off shafts of white light, flying slowly, then making a 90° turn and climbing away fast. 4-5 minutes.
Source: Berliner; BBU 1700
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Time: Approx. 11:00 p.m. MST
Summary: A civilian woman and her 16-year-old son saw a dull grey, flying-wing-shaped object, about the size of a B-36, with a series of orange glowing windows along the bottom. It traveled at the speed of a jet aircraft for 10 to 15 seconds. The card notes both witnesses had been following flying saucer publicity.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Hallock, Minnesota
Time: Unknown
Summary: No narrative is on record for this report.
Source: FUFOR Index; BBU
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Mormon Mesa, Nevada
Time: Unknown
Summary: A Mormon Mesa, Nevada encounter. See the full report for complete case detail. [Full Report]
Source: See full report
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: New York, New York
Time: Unknown
Summary: No narrative is on record for this report.
Source: The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, ed. Ronald D. Story; Project Blue Book photograph file 1729 (3 photographs, July 28)
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: San Rafael, California
Time: Unknown
Summary: Two civilian men saw a reddish-yellow light fly a straight course for about one minute. The card notes Naval aircraft at 20,000 ft in the immediate area.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 28, 1952
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
Time: Unknown
Summary: Project Blue Book catalogs a photograph file (File 1710, four photographs) for Jersey City, New Jersey, July 28, 1952.
Source: Project Blue Book photograph file 1710
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Osceola, Wisconsin
Time: 1:30 a.m.
Summary: Radar operators on the ground and the pilot of an F-51 Mustang in flight tracked several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets and one large target. Small targets moved southwest to east at 50-60 knots (60-70 mph), following each other; the large target moved at 600 knots (700 mph). The pilot confirmed one target visually. Photos reportedly taken. 1 hour. [Full Report]
Source: Berliner; BBU 1731; Project Blue Book Osceola case file and ATIC comments; photograph file 1731 (11 photographs, July 29)
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Washington, D.C.
Time: Early morning
Summary: CAA radar tracked 8 to 12 UFOs at a time, traveling about 100-120 mph in a 10-mile arc around the capital. When an Eastern Airlines pilot tried to check the radar targets at CAA’s request around 3:00 a.m., he saw nothing; the targets disappeared from CAA radar screens as the airliner approached, then reappeared behind him once he passed through the area.
Source: Unknown
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Time: 10:00 a.m. and 10:57 a.m.
Summary: Several Los Alamos Scientific Lab employees and others saw a white object moving east to west at roughly 1.8°/sec angular velocity, with a gyrating or fluttering motion. Two jet interceptors from Kirtland AFB arrived about 5 minutes later, chasing the object west to east, all three leaving contrails. At 10:57 a.m., a light-brown, egg-shaped object with wings was sighted hovering, then shot off to the northwest, disappearing in 3 seconds. 30 seconds.
Source: Hynek UFO Report, pp. 61-64; BBU; CCL Item #18
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Time: 12:35 p.m.
Summary: USAF shop employees Douglas and Hess at Municipal Airport saw a bright, white, circular object with a flat bottom fly very fast, then hover 10-15 seconds over the Cessna Aircraft Co. plant. 5 minutes.
Source: Berliner; BBU 1739
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: The Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
Time: Afternoon
Summary: The Samford Press Conference. Air Force Major Generals John Samford (Director of Intelligence) and Roger M. Ramey (Director of Operations) held the Air Force’s largest press conference since the end of World War II, attributing radar sightings to temperature inversions and visual sightings to misidentified stars or meteors, while acknowledging that “a certain percentage” of the volume of reports came from “credible observers of relatively incredible things.” None were said to pose a national security threat. [Full Report]
Source: Wikipedia (1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident); We Are The Mighty
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Langley AFB, Virginia
Time: 2:30-2:50 p.m.
Summary: USAF Capt D. G. Moore, military air traffic controller, tracked an object on an AN/MPN-1C radar set for two minutes below 5,000 ft, approaching Langley from the south, 15 miles out, disappearing from the scope 8 miles south of the base. Speed was determined at approximately 2,600 mph (via 7 radar sweeps). At 2:50 p.m., Moore and Gilfillan electronics representative W. Yhope tracked a target moving away, stopping for 2 minutes, then moving very, very fast again. 4 minutes.
Source: Berliner; BBU 1732
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Near Ennis, Montana
Time: Between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. MST
Summary: Ben Shaffer, driving near Ennis, saw an object hovering over a mountain and stopped to watch; a cloud formed around it and 3 smaller discs burst out at an estimated 200 mph before arcing away. Shaffer flagged down other motorists, assembling roughly 12 witnesses (one with 50-power binoculars). About 30 minutes later, 5 more objects appeared in V formation, each forming its own small cloud before entering the larger one. No other clouds were visible anywhere else in the sky. Shaffer filmed the event in color and took stills, handing the undeveloped film to Major McCarthy of the 29th Air Division at Great Falls AFB. [Full Report]
Source: UFO Casebook
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Merced, California
Time: 3:44 or 4:35 p.m.
Summary: Herbert Mitchell and an employee saw a dark, discus-shaped object, trailed by a silvery light two lengths behind, tip on its side, dive, hesitate, then circle very fast. 2 minutes.
Source: Berliner; FUFOR Index; BBU 1738
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Time: 9:15 p.m.
Summary: A witness saw a flight of at least 10 luminous objects pass over Albuquerque, soundless and graceful, described as clustered together with no apparent pattern, heading north, then shifting with precision into a perfect V formation resembling a flight of geese, then within seconds forming two rows with objects spaced at exact intervals — those in the second row evenly spaced between those in the first.
Source: Dan Wilson; CCL Item #19
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Miami, Florida
Time: 9:30 p.m.
Summary: Ralph Mayher, using 16mm film exposed at 24 frames per second, obtained good footage of a high-speed UFO. He retained a few frames for personal study and submitted the main portion of the film to the Air Force for analysis; it was never returned, and no analysis report was ever released. Enlargements of a few retained frames show a fiery-looking, roughly circular, symmetrical object with two small peaks or projections on opposite sides of the disc.
Source: UFOE VIII; Blue Book documents
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Port Huron, Michigan
Time: 9:40 p.m. CST
Summary: An Air Force radar station plotted an unidentified target moving at 550 knots. An F-94 in the area was asked to investigate; its airborne radar locked onto the UFO, which appeared as a bright, flashing, colored light. The object, showing on ground radar along with the F-94, outdistanced the interceptor. Same underlying incident as the July 28-29 Port Huron entry above (CCL Item #17) — presented here at the second timestamp given in a separate source passage.
Source: Unknown
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Ashiya Air Base, Japan
Time: 9:45 p.m.
Summary: An Air Force major saw lights from the ground for four minutes at 1,500 to 3,000 ft toward the west. The card notes it may have been a searchlight from a ship off the coast.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Otis AFB, Massachusetts
Time: Approx. 9:49 p.m. EDT
Summary: The pilot of an F-94 saw a white light, blinking and at times flashing rapidly, travel slowly while gaining altitude to about 22,000 ft. At closest range the object appeared to have something hanging from it.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 29, 1952
Location: Walker AFB, Roswell, New Mexico
Time: Unknown
Summary: Four weather observers, including the base weather officer, sighted several high-speed discs through a theodolite.
Source: Hynek UFO Report, pp. 114-115; BBU
Date: July 30, 1952
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Summary: George and Everett Nye observed one round object giving off a bright, luminous, glittering-diamond color, hovering directly overhead at approximately 5,000 ft. Upon a C-97 aircraft’s approach, it made a rapid ascent to approximately 10,000 ft, then moved off laterally at tremendous speed, many times faster than a conventional aircraft. The observers stated it was larger than a conventional aircraft. 30 minutes.
Source: Berliner, Dan Wilson; BBU 1758
Date: July 30, 1952
Location: Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico
Time: Between 9:10 and 9:20 p.m. MST
Summary: A/1C Scott C. Owen observed a bright white light whose intensity changed from bright to dim to bright, making a 180° turn in a wide arc while moving ESE, straight and level, until about 80° of the turn was made. The object then came to almost a complete stop momentarily, gained speed, started climbing, leveled off, and faded from sight. No sound was heard; speed appeared faster than a jet aircraft. Approximately 1 minute.
Source: FUFOR Index, Dan Wilson; BBU
Date: July 30, 1952
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Time: 11:02 p.m.
Summary: Kirtland AFB USAF 1st Lt. George Funk saw a stationary orange light. No further details survive. 10 minutes.
Source: Berliner; BBU 1755
Date: July 30, 1952
Location: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
Time: 11:15 p.m. MST
Summary: A 16-year-old boy saw a circular, bright white object travel from east to west at different speeds for 30 seconds before it disappeared into clouds. The card notes the description fits a balloon. Project Blue Book evaluated it as Insufficient Data for Evaluation.
Source: Project Blue Book record card
Date: July 30, 1952
Location: Keesler AFB, Mississippi
Time: 11:55 p.m. CST
Summary: Capt. Eugene P. Daspit and T/Sgt James E. Hansen sighted an unusual, teardrop-shaped object on the PPI scope of an AN/CPS-5 radar set, first at 335° azimuth, roughly 43 miles distant. It moved slowly south for about 2 minutes, stopped for about 4 minutes, moved slowly north for 3 minutes, stopped for 2 minutes, and disappeared. It reappeared after about 3 minutes and moved north at a more rapid pace, disappearing completely at 50 miles from the radar site.
Source: Dan Wilson
Date: July 30, 1952
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Time: Unknown
Summary: No narrative is on record for this report.
Source: FUFOR Index; BBU
Date: July 31, 1952
Location: 15 miles E of Yokota AFB, Japan
Time: 10:10 p.m.
Summary: USAF pilot Leach and copilot Kato of a C-47 with the 548th Tech Recon Squadron saw an object at 7,000 ft off their left wing.
Source: Project 1947; FUFOR Index; BBU
Date: July 31, 1952
Location: Bernina Mountains, Italy
Time: Unknown
Summary: A Bernina Mountains, Italy sighting. See the full report for complete case detail. [Full Report]
Source: See full report
Date: July 31, 1952
Location: Passaic, New Jersey
Time: Unknown
Summary: The Passaic, New Jersey photographs — George Stock’s images of a purported domed flying saucer, widely published at the time and later characterized by ufologist Kevin D. Randle as the “most spectacular” photos of the flap but a hoax, the object usually compared to a lady’s sun hat. See the full report for complete case detail. Referenced twice on the original archive page; presented once here. [Full Report]
Source: See full report; Wikipedia (Passaic UFO photographs); Project Blue Book photograph file 1768 (5 photographs, July 31)
1952: Unknown Date UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A Second Washington Weekend, a Press Conference and the Flap’s Final Days
July 1952 ends the way it began, with radar scopes full of unexplained returns, but it closes on a note the earlier weeks did not have: an official Air Force response. The July 26-27 Washington weekend, drawn from Project 1947’s declassified transcripts and a CNN retrospective interview with UFO historian Kevin Randle, shows controllers noting the second weekend’s returns were more erratic than the first. Two days later, Major General John Samford’s Pentagon press conference tried to explain the flap away with temperature inversions, while conceding that some fraction of the reports came from witnesses who could not simply be dismissed.
The Osceola, Wisconsin radar-visual case of July 29 is this page’s strongest new standalone: an hour of radar targets, one large target at roughly 600 knots, clusters of up to ten small targets at 50 to 60 knots, an F-51 scrambled, and a Blue Book conclusion of Unknown, with Air Technical Intelligence Center comments later favoring anomalous propagation. The Ennis, Montana case adds roughly twelve witnesses, color film handed to a 29th Air Division major and objects that appeared to form their own clouds.
“A certain percentage of this volume of reports has been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things.”
— Maj. Gen. John Samford, Pentagon press conference, July 29, 1952
