22 July 1952 14:46
Uvalde, Texas, USA
Large, round, silver object fly at 1,000+ mph while gyrating
Don Epperly, Trans Texas Airlines station manager and weather observer, saw a large, round, silver object fly at 1,000+ mph while gyrating. A flying disc was observed.One white ball, about 80 feet across, was observed in partly cloudy weather by one male 27-year-old witness at an airport for 45 minutes. No sound was heard.
Ruppelt's account:
In Uvalde, Texas, a UFO described as "a large, round, silver object that spun on its vertical axis" was seen to cross 100 degrees of afternoon sky in forty-eight seconds. During part of its flight it passed between two towering cumulus clouds.
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: BCC:
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