PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6987404

DATE OF SIGHTINGJuly 1952

REPORTED LOCATIONSPOKANE WASHINGTON

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ViTH REPORTING PARTY AND ARE ONLY APPROXIMATIONS. PERSONS REPORTING
SIGHTINGS INCLUDE TWO WOMEN RESIDENTS OF SPOKANE AND MAJOR en
GI inc comm OFFICER 21'°TX STRAT RECON WING STATIONED AT
rAIACHILD AFB. REPORTS BY MAJOR gMmmery sy ONE voMAN VERE ON
SIGHTING FROM A DRIVE-IN THEATER 47 49N 117 190. FACING NNE MAJOR
FREEMAN SAW TEN OR TWELVE 8RILLIANT WHITE LIGHTS ON A NY MEADING ae
TXAVELING RAPIDLY CLIMBING SLIGHTLY AZIMUTH OF SIGHTING 3% DECNZEs. <e

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fine OF MAJOR SEE 5164 T1Nc FIVE SECONDS. WOMAN REPORTING SIGHTING
AT APPROXIMATELY SAME TIME DESCRIBED SAME TYPE FORMATION BUT ON A
SOUTHERLY COURSE FORMATION THEN DID A 3¢9 AND CONTINUED SOUTH, OBJECTS
DLSPLAYED NO TRAIL OR EXHAUST NO SOUND. CTHERS IN ADJOINING CARS ARE
Af£PCETLD TO HAVE COMMENTED ON THIS SIGHTING. THE SECOND POINT OF
S1GHTING AT APPROXIMATELY THE SAME TIME WAS FROM ANOTHER DRIVE-IN
idE€ATiR IN N SPOKANE 47 45N 117 251. TWO LUZ.0us WHITE DISCS HAD

BEEN SEEN EARLIER AT 2045 TRAVELING RAPIDLY NE TO SW IN LINE FORMATION.

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DUS TC LIGHT OF DUSK THIS SIGHTING WAS HAZY. SUBSLOVENT SIGHTING AT
2232 WAS CF A SINGLE DISC DESCRIBED AS LOOKING LIKE CLAY PIGEON

LUGINOUS WHITE CAME OUT OF NE AND DISAPPZARED IN SW BEHIND THEATER SCREEN

DROPPING TOWARDS HORIZON, SIZE OF THIS LATTER OBJECT WAS COMPARED TO
ONE-SIXTH THE SIZE OF A FULL MOON LARGER THAN ANY STAR. NO TRAIL OR
DXMAUST REPORTED. ELAPSED TIME OF SINGLE DISC TWO TO TIREE SECONDS.
RELIABILITY OF CIVILIAN REPORTERS CANNOT BE EVALUATED. RELIARILITY OF
6J0R Mec 00d. 1 LACA REPORT THERE WAS MENTION OF MANY OTHERS
i VICINITY ALSO OBSERVING OBJECT

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