6 October 2005
(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“Source: Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, 135-136
The report below sounds very similar to the March 20, 1952 sighting at Centerville , Maryland
While I’d been in California Alexandria , Virginia Washington
About ten o’clock in the evening he and two other people were standing
near the edge of his yard talking; he happened to be facing south, looking off
across the countryside. He digressed a bit from his story to explain that his
home is on a hilltop in the country, and when looking south, he had a view of
the entire countryside. While he was talking to the two other people he noticed
a light. He had assumed it was an airplane and had casually watched it, but
when the light got fairly close, the CIA man said that he suddenly realized
there wasn’t any sound associated with it. If it were an airplane it would have
been close enough for him to hear even above the hum of the guests’
conversations. He had actually quit talking and was looking at the light when
it stopped for an instant and began to climb almost vertically. He said
something to the other guests, and they looked up just in time to see the light
finish its climb, stop, and level out. They all watched it travel level for a
few seconds, then go into a nearly vertical dive, level out, and streak off to
the east.
Most everyone at the party had seen the light before it disappeared, and
within minutes several friendly arguments as to what it was had developed, I
was told. One person thought it was a lighted balloon, and a retired general
thought it was an airplane. To settle the arguments, they had made a few
telephone calls. I might add that these people were such that the mention of
their names on a telephone got quick results. Radar in the Washington
area said that there had been no airplanes flying west to east south of Alexandria 65,000 feet
were blowing from west to east – and to be able to see a light on a balloon, it
has to be well below 65,000
feet ; the man from CIA told me that they had even
considered the possibility that the UFO was a meteor and that the had been due
to some kind of an atmospheric distortion. But the light had been in sight too
long to be a meteor. He added that an army chaplain and two teetotaler guests
had also seen the light jump.
There wasn’t much left for me to do when I finished talking to the man.
He and his guests had already made all of the checks that I’d have made. All I
could do was go back to Dayton
Project Blue Book listed the case [BBU 1074] as “Unknown.”
Project Blue Book listed the case [BBU 1074] as “Unknown.”
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