12 July 1950
(The Anniston Star, Alabama
Source: NICAP.org
The whole article:
“The Navy studied a report today from two pilots and
an electronics instructor who claimed to have tracked a flying saucer or ‘some
strange craft’ on a radar screen for eight miles.
Both fliers reported seeing a shiny round object
whizzing past their training planes, about 10 miles northeast of Osceola , Ark.
Electronics Technician G. D. Wehner, who was flying
with enlisted Pilot R. E. Moore, said he ‘caught it on the radar scope. It was
helmet-shaped. The outline of the edges were all right, but glare from the
center of it prevented getting a better look.’
‘At first we thought it was a jet plane distorted by
glare of the aluminum body,’ said Lt. (jg) J. W. Martin, the second pilot.
‘When I first spotted the saucer it was about two
miles off and appeared to be a round ball. It was in sight for about three
minutes and at one time we were within one mile of it.’
‘The thing looked like a World War I helmet seen from
the side, or a shiny shallow bowl turned upside down. We wanted to follow it,
but our training ships couldn’t keep up with the saucer, or whatever it was.’
The pilots, based at the Millington Naval Air Station
near here, estimated the object was flying at an altitude of 8,000-feet at a
speed of 200 miles
per hour.
The Navy declined comment.
Similar flying saucer stories have been debunked by
the armed forces.”
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