Tuesday 26 February 2019

UFO News Article:
“CITY SURVEY CREW SIGHTS SAUCER
THROUGH LENS OF TRANSIT IN RENO”


8 July 1952
(Reno Gazette-Journal, Nevada)

Source: ufonewspaper.blogspot.com

The whole article:
“Flying saucers, as well as daylight meteors, were in the news today in Reno.

Elliott Cann, city engineer, gave a belated report that a city survey crew sighted an object last Thursday (3 July 1952) described as resembling an inverted parachute.

The four members of the crew, as well as two interested bystanders, were able to watch the object through a transit lens for ‘three to four minutes.’

Croyden York, the man in charge of the survey crew, said he and three other city surveyors were in a truck in the Alameda Heights subdivision just north of the race track last Thursday when they first saw the object hovering in the sky over the Spanish Springs mountains at about 3:15 p.m.

‘I stopped the truck, set up the transit and got a sight of it,’ Mr. York said.

The head surveyor said he and the other crew members and a man and a woman who came running to see what was going on all were able to watch the object through the transit.

Mr. York described the ‘flying saucer’ as resembling an inverted 
p a r a c h u t e with three vapor streams rising from its surface up to a point  some ‘150 feet or more’ where they joined together.

And Mr. York said, ‘those six pairs of eyes’ which looked through the transit weren’t all that saw the object that day.

He said he had heard other reports of a saucer-shaped object over Peavine mountain earlier that day, and a ‘reliable person’ reported seeing the same type of object about 150 miles south of Reno Thursday evening, he added.

‘While we were watching it, it hovered over the mountains, almost perfectly still, for three or four minutes, then took off toward the direction of Fernley and disappeared,’ he said.

But while it was traveling away, Mr. York said he and the crewmen were abel to follow its path with the transit.

‘And if it had been a jet plane, it couldn’t have been followed that way,’ he said.

Mr. York said the vapor trail from the object discredited the idea that it might have been a jet plane.

‘If it had been a jet, the vapor would have been parallel to the earth’s surface as it moved across the sky. But the vapor from this was vertical.

Just how high in the sky the object was, Mr. York said he couldn’t estimate. But he said it was close enough to the ground that if there was anybody in it, they could have been taking pictures.

The other crewmen with Mr. York were Burt Chanslor, Terry Whobrey and Wayne Peterson. The two interested bystanders were unidentified.

City Engineer Elliott Cann, in reporting the incident belatedly today, explained that there are so many stories these days about objects in the skies that persons are apt to be sceptical.

‘But every one of these four men swore that they saw something,’ he said.

Mr. Cann wasn’t on the scene himself.”


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UFO Documentary Film Segment:
“The Washington DC UFO Sightings”


Published: 21 July 2017
(History, New York City, New York)

Source: Unsealed Files (YouTube channel)

Quote from the video text:
“In the spring of 1952, UFO sightings go off the charts. For years, the U.S. government has told the postwar public that UFOs do not exist, but behind the scenes, U.S. Air Force officials are divided. Join us as we investigate the 1952 UFO Wave; a spike in sightings so extreme that the U.S. government is forced to confront the UFO phenomena head on.”


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UFO Documentary Film Segment:
“Unsealed Alien Files, 1952 UFO Wave”


Published: 6 June 2016
(History, New York City, New York)

Source: Unsealed Files (YouTube channel)

Quote from the video text:
“In the spring of 1952, UFO sightings go off the charts. For years, the U.S. government has told the postwar public that UFOs do not exist, but behind the scenes, U.S. Air Force officials are divided. Join us as we investigate the 1952 UFO Wave; a spike in sightings so extreme that the U.S. government is forced to confront the UFO phenomena head on.”


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UFO Map: North America 1952
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