| 24 May 1949 - Gold Beach, Oregon, USA |
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24 May 1949 17:00 Gold Beach, Oregon, USA 
Hamburger-shaped metallic disc about 25-35 feet to 100 feet wide. Explanation: Debris.
NACA Ames Research Lab employees Don Heaphy and another, plus Mrs. Oliver Elizabeth McBeth, a pharmacist, and their wives, saw, in the east at azimuth 60°, a hamburger-shaped metallic disc about 25-35 feet to 100 feet wide with a tail fin and a "dirty" surface, rough and wrinkled in the rear. It was at about 5,000 foot altitude and about 1-4 miles away, traveling at about C-47 speed. It then accelerated to jet speed, flying to the south, azimuth 170°. The object was observed with 8x binoculars. A flying disc was observed. One metallic saucer was observed in clear weather by five male witnesses with binoculars on a river for 90 minutes. No sound was heard. Hynek rating: DD: Daylight Discs Vallee rating: FB1: A simple sighting of a UFO traveling in a straight line across the sky. Vallee reliability rating: AAA: Other sightings in this area Sources: - 55 - 197 - 239 - 252 - 663 - 676 - 749 |
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