23 July 1952
(Spokane Daily Chronicle, Washington)
The whole article:
“Were there ‘flying saucers’ in the western sky here
last night between 9 and 11 p.m.?
Stanley D. Taylor, clerk of the federal court here,
and Mrs. Taylor saw about 40 ‘strange lights’ here last night (22 July 1952),
Taylor said today.
‘We were at a drive-in movie north of town,’ he said. ‘We
saw the lights above the screen. They were definitely not spotlights, nor
airplanes nor stars.
‘They were about the size of medium-sized stars, and
they traveled across the sky in different patterns and at a terrific rate of
speed—I judged about 1500 miles an hour.
‘One of them shot
across the sky, stopped and shot right back again over the same course.
‘Another one shot up
in the sky to a point and then dropped back, forming a triangle’
The security office
at Fairchild air force base said no other reports of ‘flying saucers’ had been
made here for more than a week.
Officers at the base
said they did not know what the lights seen by Taylor were.”
Satellite photo of Spokane, Washington (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)
