5 July 1952
(United Press article (contained in the Project Blue
Book files))
Source: Fold3.com, Lindon, Utah
The whole article:
“Four Florida pilots, three of them World War II
veterans, told today (5 July 1952) of seeing a ‘flying saucer’ hovering over
the Hanford atomic plant at Richlands, Wash.
Capt. John Baldwin of Coral Gables, Fla., an air force
pilot in the Pacific during World War II, who has 7,000 hours of air line pilot
experience, said the object he and his companions saw early today was a ‘perfectly
round disc, white in color and almost transparent with small vapor trails off
it like the tentacles of an octopus.’
He said he was flying at about 9,000 feet and saw the
object ‘just below a deck of wispy clouds about 10,000 to 15,000 feet directly
above us.
All of us have been flying a number of years and we’ve
seen all kinds of clouds and formations, bur none of us had ever seen anything
like this before,’ Baldwin said.”
I also reported about this case (news article) on 21 August 2010.
Related posts:
Wikipedia article: “Hanford Site”:
Aerial
view of the Hanford Site,