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CASE REFERENCE6383633

DATE OF SIGHTINGSeptember 1952

REPORTED LOCATIONATLANTICOCEAN

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Flying saucer, possible explanation of one instance

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30 September, 1952

From: Commanding Officer, TANEY (WPG-37)
To: # Commandant (0)
Via: Commander, 12th Coast Guard District (0)

Subj: Flying saucer

l. One night recently, while on Ocean Station UNCLE, members of this
ship observed an apparition in the sky which bore resemblance to what have
been reported in the press and elsewhere as “flying saucers". Since it
was possible on this occasion to identify the cause of this phenomenon, it
is considered that a report of the incident may be of some interest.

2. At the time, there was a broken cloud layer at about 5,000 feet,
with mo mood. Suddenly, there appeared in the sky, at about the level of
the clouds, a lwiimous, greyish disc. It looked to be avout 5-600 feet
in diameter and seemed to hover { & position about two miles from the

ship. ‘The Commanding Officer, who happened to be on the bridge at the tim,
had previously regarded reports of flying saucers with skepticism, but was
then convinced that this was indeed an object of som sort for which there
was no other explanation. After hovering for a while, the object started
moving across the sky, slowly eat first, and then rapidly, reaching an esti-

mated speed of perhaps 500 miles an hour.

3. And then, almost by chance, the cause of the apparition becam evi-
dent through a break in the clouds. At some there or four thousand feet
above the cloud layer an aircraft in transit was seen to be operating a
landing light. The shaft of the beam could be observed where it entered
the clouds from above, but from below there was no evidence whatever of any
source of light. The foot of the beam, as viewed from beneath the clouds,

presented only a sharply delineated form, oval in shape, appearing to have
{ Senesty and substance.

4, Hed the aircraft not been seen, this occurance would have been report-—
ed in good faith as an observation of a flying saucer. All witnesses were
convinced of its authenticity. The explanation set forth above has not been
seen in any of the numerous newspeper’ and magazine articles that have dis-
cussed this subject, but it appears to be a logical explanation for many
cases that are otherwise unaccounted for.

' [> ig suggested therefore tnat this report, or *hea suostance or it,
be rorwarded to the Air Force group currently investigating reports or
flying saucers for such interest or vaiue that it may contain.