8 July 1952
(Reno Gazette-Journal, Nevada)
Source: ufonewspaper.blogspot.com
The whole article:
“Flying saucers, as well as daylight meteors, were in
the news today in Reno.
Elliott Cann, city engineer, gave a belated report
that a city survey crew sighted an object last Thursday (3 July 1952) described
as resembling an inverted parachute.
The four members of the crew, as well as two
interested bystanders, were able to watch the object through a transit lens for
‘three to four minutes.’
Croyden York, the man in charge of the survey crew,
said he and three other city surveyors were in a truck in the Alameda Heights
subdivision just north of the race track last Thursday when they first saw the
object hovering in the sky over the Spanish Springs mountains at about 3:15
p.m.
‘I stopped the truck, set up the transit and got a
sight of it,’ Mr. York said.
The head surveyor said he and the other crew members
and a man and a woman who came running to see what was going on all were able
to watch the object through the transit.
Mr. York described the ‘flying saucer’ as resembling
an inverted
p a r a c h u t e with three vapor streams rising from its surface
up to a point some ‘150 feet or more’
where they joined together.
And Mr. York said, ‘those six pairs of eyes’ which
looked through the transit weren’t all that saw the object that day.
He said he had heard other reports of a saucer-shaped
object over Peavine mountain earlier that day, and a ‘reliable person’ reported
seeing the same type of object about 150 miles south of Reno Thursday evening, he
added.
‘While we were watching it, it hovered over the
mountains, almost perfectly still, for three or four minutes, then took off
toward the direction of Fernley and disappeared,’ he said.
But while it was traveling away, Mr. York said he and
the crewmen were abel to follow its path with the transit.
‘And if it had been a jet plane, it couldn’t have been
followed that way,’ he said.
Mr. York said the vapor trail from the object
discredited the idea that it might have been a jet plane.
‘If it had been a jet, the vapor would have been
parallel to the earth’s surface as it moved across the sky. But the vapor from
this was vertical.
Just how high in the sky the object was, Mr. York said
he couldn’t estimate. But he said it was close enough to the ground that if
there was anybody in it, they could have been taking pictures.
The other crewmen with Mr. York were Burt Chanslor,
Terry Whobrey and Wayne Peterson. The two interested bystanders were
unidentified.
City Engineer Elliott Cann, in reporting the incident
belatedly today, explained that there are so many stories these days about
objects in the skies that persons are apt to be sceptical.
‘But every one of these four men swore that they saw
something,’ he said.
Mr. Cann wasn’t on the scene himself.”
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Skyline of Reno,
Nevada. Camera is looking north
towards
downtown from Audrey Harris Park on Lakeside Drive.
(tageo.com photo)
