7 August 1965
(The Desert Sun, Palm
Springs , California
Source: cdnc.ucr.edu
The whole article:
“A strange flying object was viewed here Thursday (5
August 1965) night by a sharp - eyed operator of a Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
cable car during the 8:30 p.m. run to the mountain station.
‘I always before thought there was a logical reason
for these things,’ said Wilson Booth, who reported the incident almost
hesitantly.
‘People will probably think I’m one of those nuts, but
I even viewed it through my binoculars,’ he added.
He reports that he was at Tower 2, at about the
5.000-foot level, when the object came in from the southeast. As it approached,
he could see that it was V-shaped, with a red and white blinking light on either
side. It was an open V, he said, moving with the point forward, with the red
and white lights on either end of the V’s tails.
The entire object glowed with a vivid white light as
if moved closer, then veered off slightly before it would have crossed over the
cables.
Booth said he doubted his own eyes at first, then,
when the object reappeared over the crest of the hill, he used his binoculars
for a closer inspection.
Booth was able to draw a clear sketch of what he and
two passengers on the cable car saw. With foresight he took their names as
witnesses. They are Tom Pike and Gordon Sparks, both of Lewisville , Ohio
Booth said he could hear no sound from the object and
he could not determine what its motive power might be.”
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