17 May 1977
(Big Spring Herald, Texas)
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
The whole article:
“At least five law enforcement officers reported sighting a huge
unidentified flying object with red and green blinking lights over Memphis early today [17
May 1977].
‘It was almost standing still and only about 200 feet off the ground,
just over the power line towers,’ said Patrolman T.L. Todd, who was one of
three groups of officers who reported the object.
‘It was in the shape of a perfect triangle, standing on its edge. It was
so close it almost looked as if I could reach out and touch it.’
Todd and his partner, officer J.W. Jeter, were on patrol about 3 a.m. when they spotted the
craft near the Norris Road
exit of Interstate 240.
‘We called the police dispatcher to report what we had seen and we were
still on the air talking to him when a Tennessee State Highway Patrolman called
in from Collierville to report he had [seen] it,’ Jeter said.
The two officers said a team of officers from the North Precinct then
broke into the radio conversation to ask if it was triangular in shape.
‘Up to that point we had said nothing about it being triangular in
shape,’ Jeter said. ‘So we knew they had seen the same thing we did. They said
they saw it over North Memphis about 11 p.m.
[16 May 1977].
Jeter and Todd, members of the Memphis Police Department’s tactical
squad, tried to get a better look at the object through a rifle scope.
‘As we put the scope on it for a closeup view it streaked out of sight
so fast we couldn’t really get it into the scope,’ Jeter said.
Both officers said they heard no sound coming from the object and that
it did not attempt to land.
James Wright, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration’s control
tower at Memphis International Airport,
said his controllers had numerous calls about the sighting.
‘But we couldn’t help them,’ Wright said. ‘We had no sighting from the
tower and it didn’t show up on radar…We don’t know what it was.’ ”
My comment:
David B. Marler reports about this UFO case in his book, Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the
Situation.
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Memphis, Tennessee (the X indicates approximately the location (Norris
Road) where the huge triangular shaped UFO hovered, according to police
officers J. W. Jeter and T. L. Todd)
(Google photo)
Collierville, Tennessee
(located 37 kilometres
(23 miles)
to the
south east of Memphis)
(Google photo)
Satellite photo of Memphis,
Tennessee (
tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)
