29 March 1952 22:45
Glen Burnie, Maryland, USA
50 feet flat silver disc with cupola/dome. Explanation: Hoax.
Donald F. Stewart (Steward?) and George Tyler III saw 50 feet flat silver disc with cupola/dome to one side, a porthole and hatch on the dome, neon-like lighting around the edges (strangely pulsating?), approaching car from ahead to the northeast about 60° elevation, then hovered and "wavered slightly" for three (2?) minutes several hundred feet off the ground, whirring sound like a vacuum cleaner, car engine died while object hovered. Witness got out of car with Thompson submachine gun considering whether to shoot the disc, companion urged him not to. Object suddenly turned up on edge seeming to "roll across the sky" faster than a jet to the southwest disappearing about 3-1/2 miles away. Witness claimed car wires "magnetized" and paint cracked. Secy. AF Fin letter interest, AFOSI investigation. Hoax? An object was observed. Electromagnetic effects were noted. Multiple independent witnesses.One saucer, about 80 feet across, was observed by four witnesses on a highway for three minutes (Stewart, Donald F ; Tyler, George). A vacuum cleaner-like sound was heard.
Hynek rating: CE1: Close Encounters of the First Kind
Vallee rating: CE2: A CE1 that leaves landing traces or injuries to the witness.
Vallee reliability rating: CCC:
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