6 January 1953
(The Monroe News-Star, Louisiana
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
The whole article:
“A bright, colorful object, ‘shaped like an arrow-head,’ was in sight
over Dallas
Police dispatcher Lewis Passons said he first began getting reports of
the strange object about 1 [a.m.] cst.
‘People called in describing the thing as green, orange and red,’
Passons said. ‘They said it was arrow-shaped with a green nose and wings that
gave off a white light and a whirring noise.’
[Passons] said he didn’t get ‘too concerned until several squad cars
reported seeing the object.
‘Then we got in touch with the tower at Love Field and they said it was
visible from there,’ Passons said. ‘Several boys climbed on top of City Hall
and said they could see it plainly.’
W. B. Harris, Dallas Fire Department dispatcher, said he watched the
object from the window of his office for about two hours.
‘I wish I’d never seen it,’ Harris said. ‘It’s too fantastic, and now
there’ll be a lot of talk. I just wish I’d never seen it.’
Harris said that the object changed colors while he was watching it,
‘from and orange to a bright red.’
‘I know this much,’ Harris said, ‘It wasn’t a plane or a star.’
Wyle Moore, controller on duty at the Love Field tower, said when he
first spotted the object he estimated its height at 30,000 feet .”
‘I marked a spot on the glass here so I could keep up with it,’ he said,
‘and within 30 minutes I’d estimate it had gone up to 80,000 feet . In another
hour it had gotten up to 100,000
feet and then, of course, you could barely see it.’
‘I should know a plane or a star by now,’ Moore
Passons said that reports of the object came from as far away as Paris , Tex. , about 100 miles northeast of Dallas
However, the control tower at Hensley said that no aircraft had left the
station since Monday afternoon and that no pilots aloft had reported sighting
any strange objects.
Officers at Carswell Air Force Base at Fort Worth
My comment:
I first learned of this UFO case while reading David B. Marler’s
brilliant book, Triangular UFOs: An
Estimate of the Situation.
The police dispatcher received the first UFO reports at 3:00 a.m. CST,
according to Marler.
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Wikipedia article: “Dallas Love Field”:
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