“ ’Flying Saucer’ Crop”, 4 June 1954
(The Day, New London, Connecticut)
The U.S. Air Force received 87 UFO reports during the first five months of 1954, according to The Day:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q_UgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=33MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5314,757464
Project Blue Book (U.S. Air Force), the official U.S.
Government study of the UFO phenomenon, ran from
1951 to 17 December 1969 (projectbluebook.us image)
