(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“Fran Ridge:
Aug. 11, 1954; Nr. the Yoron-Jima Island in the Pacific Ocean (BBU 3162)
8:55 p.m. local. This is a ship report sent to Project
Blue Book under Navy UFO regulations and is listed as an unknown. P. L.
Percharde, electrical engineer and assistant manager of Moeller Shipwrecker
Co., of Okinawa , saw a line of blue lights
underneath a blue circle with a black center fly over ship and climb,
illuminating and agitating the clouds.
Antonio Rullan:
5.2 SS Docteur Angier - August 12 (correction, 11)
1954
At 20:55 local time near the Yoron-Jima
Island in the Pacific
Ocean , two civilian witnesses saw a 100-ft diameter disk approach
their ship from the NE. The two witnesses (Mr. Percharde and his assistant
Kosei Nakamoto) were on the deck of SS Docteur Angier when they were first
attracted to a thin line of blue light in the sky about 300 ft over sea level. As
the light approached the ship, it became an ellipse and as it came directly
over the ship it became a circle. The center of the disk was jet black and was
surrounded by an annular ring. The width of the annular ring was blue in color
and its inner edge was pink. Its 100 foot diameter was estimated when the object
flew over the ship. After the object reached the ship, it rose vertically and
disappeared into clouds at 2,000
feet elevation. Both witnesses were interviewed by USAF
Intelligence. The USAF intelligence officer who prepared the Air Intelligence
Information Report drew a sketch of the sighting based on the interrogations of
the two witnesses. Figure 21 shows the diagram made by the US Intelligence
Officer to describe this UFO sighting. (Source: Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by
Ships, A.F. Rullan, page 36).”
NICAP.org presents U.S.
Wikipedia article: “Yoronjima”:
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