Bill Turrentine

Single panel intelligence dossier image for the 1947 Norfolk Virginia flying disc case showing a 13-year-old boy on a front porch raising an old camera toward a large dark gray nearly black oval object with a burned-crisp texture and glittering edges trailing dust just below the cloud base, with two smaller oval objects following behind, framed by a porch rail and summer trees for scale, rendered as a grainy July 1947 silver gelatin newspaper press photograph in an indigo-charcoal palette with HUD overlays marking the three objects, the estimated 5000-foot altitude and 600 mph southwest-to-northeast track, the DD daylight disc classification, and the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch source

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Virginia Sightings

1947: Flying Disc Photographed By Norfolk Youth

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 3, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1947: Flying Disc Photographed By Norfolk Youth On the afternoon of July 9, 1947 — with the...