18
April 1952
(The
Salt Lake Tribune , Salt Lake City, Utah )
Source: NICAP.org
The whole article:
“Flying Saucers in the area of theNevada test site, where
important new atomic tests are in progress, were reported Thursday [17
April 1952].
“Flying Saucers in the area of the
An Air Force technical sergeant and four civilian workers at the Nellis
Air Force Base, near Las Vegas ,
said they saw 18 circular objects flying an easterly course which carried them
over or very close to the test site.
Those who reported seeing the objects were T/S Orville Lawson, Rudy
Toncer, sheet metal shop foreman, and sheet metal shop workers R.K. Van Houtin,
Edward Gregory and Charles Ruliffson.
The objects went by at 12:05 p.m. Van Houtin saw them first and then
called attention of the others to them.
The men watched the saucers for about 30 seconds.”
I also reported about this case on 14 July 2010.
Wikipedia article: “Nellis Air Force Base”:
(wikimedia.org photo)
Yucca Flat [Nevada ] has hundreds of subsidence craters
from underground nuclear weapons tests. Asian Lake
is visible on the right. (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org)
(wikimedia.org photo)
Yucca Flat [