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NICAP.org UFO case report:
“REPORT ON THE UFO WAVE OF 1947”
By Ted Bloecher
“Case 528 -- July 6 (1947), near Palmdale,
California: Mrs. Amy Herdliska, housewife living at Four Points in the Palmdale
area, reported that she had seen a group of objects twice during the late
evening behaving in a most peculiar manner. She reported to Sgt. W. K.
Campbell, of the Lancaster County sheriff’s substation that at 10:36 p.m., ‘over
the mountains south of Palmdale, I saw what looked like a mama disc, with three
to five little baby discs flying around her.
‘The little
ones would cavort around for awhile, then they'd fly back and seem to fly into
the mama disc’s pouch. Anyway, the mama disc absorbed the baby discs,’ she
explained. Mrs. Herdliska said that the objects ‘were luminescent and clearly
visible,’ and before they had disappeared to the south over the mountains, they
were seen ‘separating’ again. She reported that a second flight of the same
puzzling objects was made again at 11:17 p.m. (Case 530).
Sgt. Campbell and other deputies made a routine check
and said they saw ‘fleets of mackerel-like clouds 15,000 to 20,000 feet in the air.’
They did not see any of the discs reported by Mrs. Herdliska, and they wrote
off the report by explaining that she may have seen ‘reflections of Hollywood
arc lights’ on the clouds.
The Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Examiner (both
on 7/8) briefly refer to a sighting in North Hollywood at approximately the
same time – between ten and eleven p.m. Mrs. William A. Becker, of 6240 Sunset
Avenue, reported that she had watched ‘six or eight’ discs for an hour from her
home. ‘They were darting back and forth, crisscrossing the sky very high,’ she
said. ‘They looked all of ten or twelve feet in width – I finally got tired of
looking at them and went to bed.’ There is no indication that Mrs. Becker had
seen the same kind of phenomenon as Mrs. Herdliska reported, but if Mrs.
Herdliska's ‘mama disc and baby discs’ disappeared to the south in the interval
between her two sightings, North Hollywood is where they would be seen.”
Satellite photo of Palmdale, California (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)
